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Death Race 2000 is a 1975 American dystopian science-fiction action film directed by Paul Bartel and produced by Roger Corman for New World Pictures. [4] Set in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, the film centers on the murderous Transcontinental Road Race, in which participants score points by striking and killing pedestrians.
Simone Griffeth (born April 4, 1950), sometimes credited under her married name Simone Griffeth-McDonald, is an American actress. She was a Theater Arts major at the University of South Carolina for three years. While attending college Simone acted in a weekly children's show for a Columbia television station. She appeared in a TV commercial at ...
Death Race 2000 is a 1975 cult action film. It stars David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Louisa Moritz, and Don Steele, and was directed by Paul Bartel.In the near future, the ultimate sporting event is the Death Race.
Death Race 2000: 1975 The film takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road Race has become a form of national entertainment. [39] [78] [79] [80] Death Watch: 1980 Based on the novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton, set in a future where death from illness has become extremely ...
Charles Byron Griffith (September 23, 1930 – September 28, 2007) was an American screenwriter, actor, and film director. He was the son of Donna Dameral, radio star of Myrt and Marge, along with Charles' grandmother, Myrtle Vail, and was best known for writing Roger Corman productions such as A Bucket of Blood (1959), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), and Death Race 2000 (1975).
The film was intended as a follow-up to Death Race 2000 (1975), only with motorcycles instead of cars. [2] Corman had a commitment with David Carradine to have him as a star under a five-picture contract that he had signed with the actor, and had gotten Charles B. Griffith to write a script. However, Corman was unhappy with the script.
Death Race is a 2008 dystopian action thriller film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.It stars Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, and Joan Allen.. Though referred to as a remake of the 1975 film Death Race 2000 (which in turn is based on Ib Melchior's short story "The Racer") in reviews and marketing materials, director Paul W. S. Anderson stated in the DVD commentary that he ...
The film was written and directed by Paul Bartel, who also directed Death Race 2000. The name of the film and the plot were inspired by Erwin G. "Cannon Ball" Baker (1882–1960), who traveled across the United States several times, and by the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash , an illegal cross-continent road race ...