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| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Hong Kong | HKD 1,710,595 |
When the rollercoaster at Magic Mountain goes down for the first time, a shadow of the gear holding the camera is visible for a moment.
The last portion of the movie at Magic Mountain is depicted as taking place on July 4th but in fact it's easy to tell the filming was done during the winter months.
The trees in the park are all dormant.
During the last ride of the Revolution roller coaster, the police chase after the young man.
The chase is much longer than the actual roller coaster ride time.
The Young Man places the remote bomb on the first roller coaster underneath the main guide rail of the track, but allows the ride to run several times before detonating it.
In reality, the up-stop wheels or side wheels of the next train to pass through the course would have knocked the bomb out of place or destroyed it.
During the catastrophic accident in the beginning of the movie, most of the people in the roller coaster cars are obviously dummies.
When Young Man places the bomb in the Revolution car, he is sitting in the left seat.
Yet when the next ride occurs, the bomb is under the boy who is sitting in the right seat.
During the Rebel Yell Rollercoaster scene, the red train changes position in between shots.
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Hong Kong | HKD 1,710,595 |
Timothy Bottoms plays a disturbed young man who plants radio controlled bombs in amusement parks, centered on the rollercoasters. After demonstrating his skill and determination, he contacts the park owners with ransom demands of large cash payments, or he will destroy more parks, putting them out of business.
Rollercoaster is directed by James Goldstone and co-adapted to screenplay by Sanford Sheldon, Richard Levinson and William Link from a suggested Tommy Cook story. It stars George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Richard Widmark, Harry Guardino, Susan Strasberg and Helen Hunt.
Roller-coaster is a taut, suspense-packed thriller from a decade chock full of such movies. It's written by Richard Levinson and William Link, the guys behind COLUMBO, and in many ways it shares similarities with the films chronicling the TV detective's antics.
"Rollercoaster" is a good nail-biter of an action and crime movie. This isn't in the genre of good mysteries, because there's little suspense about who the bad guy is and why.
This is Mostly a Disaster and goes off the tracks more than not. It Bottoms out on Thrills and Spills as well as Suspense.
Though somewhat inflated in length and detail, the movie's a pretty good nail-biter. Almost all the scenes are shot at amusement parks with real crowds, so there's plenty of color, human and otherwise.
Smartaleck safety inspector Harry Calder (a sturdy and likeable performance by George Segal) has to stop a cunning and ruthless domestic terrorist (ably played with pleasing restraint by Timothy Bottoms) from blowing up a rollercoaster at an amusement park on the Fourth of July.Director James Goldstone relates the riveting story at a steady pace, generates a considerable amount of nerve-wracking tension, grounds the premise in a plausible workaday reality, and makes nice use of several funky vintage old school amusement parks.
You can buy this movie at famvid.net for under $8!!.
For the past several years, myself and six of my girlfriends have gotten together on alternate Saturday nights to watch horror movies and vote on which ones we think are the best.
