Damnation Alley

PG

1977

1 hr. 31 min.

Sci-Fi

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45%

11 Reviews

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34%

1,000+ Ratings

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Two Air Force officers (Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard) lead a desert road trip to Albany, N.Y., the only city left after World War III.

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Jeff P

I remember this movie when I was a kid. Great entertainment at the time. Knowing the cast members from TV shows such as the A-Team and Air Wolf doesn't hurt. It is cheesy, but I still love it. I just read that George Lucas worked with Alan Ladd, Studio Chief, and took a 1/4 of the production money from this film to make Star Wars. This explains a lot and probably was for the best. I wouldn't have changed a thing. I was only going to give it four stars till I read this. Five Stars and why not.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/02/24

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Emanuel B

Not a great post-apocalyptic film, possibly because all the characters are so damned happy and jolly as if they are on a Sunday outing. Where's the trauma of losing everything and being isolated from the rest of humanity?

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/05/23

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cees t

3/10 - No good, except for the disaster scene that reminded me of Spice World and the cool guy on the bike that reminded me of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Rarely have I seen worse than this. Giant scorpions and stock footage nuclear explosions.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Audience Member

20th Century Fox planned two big science fiction movies for 1977. The movie Damnation Alley was regarded as being the movie which was more likely to be successful, and thus received a larger budget and a bigger actor - George Peppard. It was a post-apocalyptic movie set after a nuclear war had tipped the earth off its axis and some soldiers go on a road trip in a unique vehicle called the Landmaster. Regrettably the movie sucks ass, but they inserted as much footage of the Landmaster trundling along the landscape as they could. The truck is very cool; they actually built this incredible thing and it performed very well. The movie essentially became truck porn. The other movie 20th Century Fox was working on was Star Wars.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Audience Member

If Star Wars hadn’t come out this same year, this is how our Science Fiction films would have continued. Fun guilty-pleasure nuclear road-trip movie

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/06/22

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Jack Smight

Director

Jan-Michael Vincent

Tanner

George Peppard

Maj. Eugene Denton

Dominique Sanda

Janice

Paul Winfield

Keegan

Jackie Earle Haley

Billy

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Eddie Harrison

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…there are the kind of big, epic moments that you’d expect from the mid 70’s end-of-the-world blockbuster, but there’s also absolutely cringe special effects and one of the most underwhelming endings in cinema….

Rated: 3/5

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John Brosnan

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What really sinks this film is the lackluster direction... and script.

Jul 22, 2022

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Fernando Trueba

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An absolutely cheap dud. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jul 31, 2019

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R.L. Shaffer

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Slow moving, with cheesy visual effects and some nasty B-movie trappings. But the story and setting are both dreary and fascinating. And performances are top notch.

Rated: 6/10

Jan 29, 2012

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Rich Cline

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gonzo guilty pleasure

Rated: 3/5

Aug 26, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 2/5

Jun 25, 2005

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Synopsis

Two Air Force officers (Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard) lead a desert road trip to Albany, N.Y., the only city left after World War III.

Director: Jack Smight
Rating: PG
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013

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