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Rollercoaster
A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
1977 · Directed by James Goldstone · 119 min · Action · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
Somewhere in the crowd is a killer who can turn smiles into screams.
Crew
- Screenplay: William Link, Richard Levinson
- Cinematography: David M. Walsh
- Edited by: Richard M. Sprague, Edward A. Biery
- Music: Lalo Schifrin
- Production design: Henry Bumstead
- Produced by: Jennings Lang
Cast
- George Segal as Harry Calder
- Richard Widmark as Agent Hoyt
- Timothy Bottoms as Young Man
- Harry Guardino as Keefer
- Susan Strasberg as Fran
- Henry Fonda as Simon Davenport
- Helen Hunt as Tracy Calder
- Dorothy Tristan as Helen
- Harry Davis as Benny Neilson
- Stephen Pearlman as Bert Lyons
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Jennings Lang Productions
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Box office: $8,200,000
- Themes: bomb, blackmail, fbi, investigation, inspector, disaster, terrorism, amusement park, roller coaster / rollercoaster, virginia
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