Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
You gotta be TOUGH to win...and CRAZY to try!
Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden, nicknamed so for his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright intends to ride with him in that race. But Walkaway just wants to get rid of her. Fast-talking promoter Bo Cochran wants the race completed by any means necessary.
- Date of release
- 1977-05-21
- TMDB
- 4.6 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Comedy
- Director
- Alan Gibson
Casting
- Joe Don Baker — Walkaway Madden
- Susan Sarandon — C.C. Wainwright
- Larry Hagman — Bo Cochran
- Alan Vint — Doc Pyle
- Parnelli Jones — Self
- Logan Clarke — Ringer
- Daina House — Rider in Black
- Michel Pitton — Perrier
- Bert LeRoy Jr. — Fly
- Dick Adair — Adams
- Bill Cross — Angel
- Ben Leeman — Pits
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