Main Cast: Johnny Hallyday, Karen Allen, Jürgen Prochnow, Gabriel Damon, Julie Glenn
Release Year: 1986
Country: DE/FR
Run Time: 81 minutes
Plot
This uneven science fiction road race combines European motorcross with football. Gus (Karen Allen) is the driver of a behemoth vehicle named Monster. The computer-controlled car runs off course, with Gus being captured and tortured. Before she dies, she turns the driving gloves over to fellow cellmate and former trucker Stump Manchot (Johnny Halladay). Stump agrees to take her place and stops the illegal plans of a fetus-smuggling doctor (Jurgen Pronchow). ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Many of the "reportage" shots were actually staged. Schlesinger makes a cameo appearance as a passing, umbrella-carrying business man and one of the main characters in the film, a tearful and apparently lost five-year old, Matthew Perry, was abandoned deliberately by his mother Margaret, an actress relative of Schlesinger. Other characters, including handcuffed convicts and a confused elderly woman, were actors.[1].
References
^The British Transport Films - A Nation on Film Special, BBC, 2008
