The Last Chase

The Last Chase (1981)

The oil finally ran out... and somewhere in the future, the chase has begun.

Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.

Date of release
1981-04-01
TMDB
3.9 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Director
Martyn Burke

Casting

Interesting facts

The Last Chase is a 1981 Canadian-American dystopian science fiction film produced and directed by Martyn Burke for Argosy Films. The film stars Lee Majors, Chris Makepeace, and Burgess Meredith in a futuristic scenario about a former race driver who reassembles his old Porsche car and drives to California in a world where cars and motor vehicles of all kinds have been outlawed by the authorities.

Production

The script for The Last Chase was written by Christopher Crowe in the 1970s. When the rights for the script were bought by a studio for $50,000, Crowe opted to have his name removed the film and instead be credited under the pseudonym "C.R. O'Christopher".

Principal photography began on October 9, 1979, with production wrapping on December 4, 1979. The film locations included locales in both the United States and Canada. The Last Chase was filmed in Tucson, Flagstaff, Marana, Sedona and Phoenix, Arizona, along with the Sonoran Desert. The film was also shot in Port Credit, Caledon, Toronto and the Mosport International Raceway, Clarington, Durham, Ontario, Canada.

The aircraft used in The Last Chase was a Canadair CL-13 Sabre Mk 6, c/n 1600, N1039C.

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