Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Genre: Drama, Disaster
Year: 1976
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Sian Barbara Allen, Vera Miles, Robert Conrad
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 is a 1976 drama television movie directed by John Llewellyn Moxey.
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 is a 1976 made-for-tv disaster film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. Based on the novel Expressway written by Trevor Dudley Smith, the film chronicles the aftermath of a 39 car smash-up in California.
The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the day of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence. From the beginning, Highway Patrol officer Sam Marcum (Robert Conrad) announces in a voice-over that a 39 car smash-up will be the cause of 62 injured people and fourteen deaths. A selection of the people involved are followed up to 48 hours preceding the accident. Other than Sam, who is chasing the murderer of his colleague on the highway, the film focuses on the elderly couple Al and June Pearson (Buddy Ebsen and Harriet Nelson), who are setting out to a beach resort to forget the fact that June is suffering from a terminal disease. Meanwhile, a woman named Erica (Vera Miles) is troubled by a gang of bikers including rebellious Burnsey (Sue Lyon), when she is rescued by young Dale (David Groh). In other sub-plots, Lee Bassett (Scott Jacoby) becomes a murder suspect when he is forced to pick up a young couple on the run, Penny and
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