Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
You gotta be TOUGH to win...and CRAZY to try!
95 min
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.
- Release date
- May 21, 1977
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Joe Don Baker as Walkaway Madden
- Susan Sarandon as C.C. Wainwright
- Larry Hagman as Bo Cochran
- Alan Vint as Doc Pyle
- Parnelli Jones as Parnelli Jones
- Logan Clarke as Ringer
- Daina House as Rider in Black
- Michel Pitton as Perrier
- Bert LeRoy Jr. as Fly
- Dick Adair as Adams
Crew
- Alan Gibson · Director
- Michael Allin · Writer
- Paul Heller · Producer
- Fred Weintraub · Producer
- Art Freeman · Composer
- Alan Hume · Cinematographer
- Allan Holzman · Editor