Cross Country (1983)
Razor-edged suspense thriller.
After a woman is found butchered in her New York apartment, suspicion falls on her estranged husband, an ad executive who has suddenly left town on a cross-country road trip. He takes along a beautiful girl he met in a bar and a drifter he picked up along the way. A cop sets out after the husband, but he's more interested in shaking him down than bringing him back.
- Date of release
- 1983-11-18
- TMDB
- 5.1 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Crime, Horror, Thriller
- Director
- Paul Lynch
Casting
- Richard Beymer — Evan Bley
- Nina Axelrod — Lois Hayes
- Michael Ironside — Det. Sgt. Roersch
- Brent Carver — John Forrest
- David Connor — Rico Barbone
- George Sperdakos — Lt. Robert Welles
- Michael Kane — Harry Burns
- August Schellenberg — Glen Cosgrove
- Paul Bradley — Nick Overland
- Roberta Weiss — Alma
- Jacklin Williams — Cleaning Woman
- Pamela Collyer — Waitress
Interesting facts
Cross Country is a 1983 Canadian erotic crime thriller film directed by Paul Lynch and starring Richard Beymer, Michael Ironside, and Nina Axelrod.
Production
Director Paul Lynch turned down directing duties on Mother Lode to direct this film, which in early stages was briefly known as Black Widows.
The film was shot in 1982 in Montreal on a budget of $3 million, financed by MGM through the recently acquired United Artists. UA Chairman David Begelman didn't like the film and sold the film to New World Pictures.
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