Two truck drivers are hired to transport a top-secret cargo from New York to Houston. Along the way they must evade attempts by a terrorist group to hijack the material.
Acting
Janssen's exhausted everyman carries 74 minutes of dread.
Direction
Horn stretches TV budget into genuine roadside unease.
Director
Leonard Horn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in New Mexico standing in for the entire interstate, because 1973 TV budgets meant one stretch of road was every highway in America.
This aired during the trucker craze of 1973-74, when CB radio culture and white-knuckle transport anxiety briefly made rig drivers America's most unlikely action heroes.
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