6.5
The Bricklayers
1976
“Somewhere in the crowd is a killer who can turn smiles into screams.”
Rollercoaster (1977)
June 10, 19771h 59mEN
6.0
155 votes
Overview
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.
Director
James GoldstoneWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$9.0M
Revenue
$8.2M
Production Companies
Universal PicturesJennings Lang Productions
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John Chard
8.0Wrong psychological profile, Harry. I'm not in this for kicks. 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. A Panavision/Technicolor production in Sensurround, it features music by Lalo Schifrin and photography by David M. Walsh. A psychopathic bomber known only as "Young Man" (Bottoms) is causing terror at American theme parks. When safety inspector Harry Calder (Sega…
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