The Junkman (1982)

PG  |   |  Action, Comedy, Crime  |  28 August 1982 (USA)
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Junkman and movie-maker Harlan Hollis struggles to stay alive when a jealous partner in his company hires goons to kill him. Full of amazing car chases, fantastic crashes, and edge-of-your-seat action.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
H.B. Halicki ...
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Susan Shaw ...
Lang Jeffries ...
Arthur Wheeler
Bruce Cameron ...
Jack Vacek ...
Dan Grimaldi ...
Kelly Busia ...
Richard L. Muse ...
Richard Harris Hill
Freddy Cannon ...
Himself
Sharon McCreedy ...
Richard's secretary
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Festival News Reporter
Dennis Stouffer ...
Dennis (security man)
Judi Gibbs ...
Christine
Brian LaBonge ...
Brian
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Junkman and movie-maker Harlan Hollis struggles to stay alive when a jealous partner in his company hires goons to kill him. Full of amazing car chases, fantastic crashes, and edge-of-your-seat action.

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28 August 1982 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Gone in 60 Seconds II  »

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This film held the Guinness World Record for most number of vehicles/planes wrecked in one movie for more than 20 years. It was eclipsed in 2003 by Matrix Revolutions (300+ [working] vehicles on loan from GM), which was itself 'beaten' by Transformers 3 with 532 vehicles 'destroyed', but they were unusable flood damaged vehicles scheduled for destruction anyway. See more »

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Cable holding Mexican's car in place visible while it is standing in the air. See more »

Quotes

Susan Clark: Michael, I'm sorry. Is there anything I can do?
Michael Fox: Yeah, you can tell me what happened. You were up there.
Susan Clark: There was an explosion - it look like World War III. It was terrible! I- I just don't know!
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Follows Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) See more »

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One of the coolest carcrash flicks ever
15 December 2005 | by (Munich, Bavaria) – See all my reviews

Everybody who loves cars and action will eat this movie. It's even something like an autobiography of H. B. Halicki. The hole lifestory of Harlen Hollis we see is much the same as Halickis own. When you think that Jackie Chan is a tough guy doing all stunts himself, than watch this movie and Gone in 60 second and see how crazy Mr. Halicki is. H. B. did everything himself, even the scenes where stuntpeople said that it is to dangerous. When you see this film from the special edition DVD, and you know the original soundtrack from Hoyt Axton, you may get a little disappointed, because it has been changed to lifeless synthesiser music.


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