MOVIE TITLE: DEADMAN'S CURVE
YEAR OF RELEASE: 1978
RUNNING TIME: 96 MINUTES
FILM SHOT IN: COLOR (you would receive the "FULLSCREEN" version)
PICTURE QUALITY RATING: = 8 out of 10 (GOOD QUALITY. THESE RARE FILMS COME FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES~PLEASE DO NOT EXPECT MODERN DAY HIGH DEFINITION DIGITAL QUALITY.)
DIRECTED BY: RICHARD COMPTON
STARRING: RICHARD HATCH (as Jan Berry), BRUCE DAVISON (as Dean Torrence), SUSAN SULLIVAN, DICK CLARK, WOLFMAN JACK
BRIEF PLOT SUMMARY: THIS FILM TRACES THE HISTORY OF WEST COAST POP ICONS JAN & DEAN. STARTING IN THE 50s, THEIR LIVES AND CAREER WERE FOREVER CHANGED WITH JAN'S NEAR-FATAL CAR CRASH IN APRIL OF 1966.
COMMENTS: SOLID MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE WITH APPEARANCES BY DICK CLARK, MIKE LOVE & BRUCE JOHNSTON (both of The Beach Boys).
IRONICALLY IN 1964, JAN & DEAN HAD A NUMBER 8 HIT WITH THE SONG "DEAD MAN'S CURVE" TWO YEARS BEFORE JAN'S TRAGIC ACCIDENT.
