Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Damnation Alley (film)

Index Damnation Alley (film)

Damnation Alley is a 1977 post-apocalyptic film directed by Jack Smight, loosely based on the novel of the same name by Roger Zelazny. [1]

71 relations: Airport 1975, Alan Sharp, Albany, New York, Amphibious vehicle, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Ark II, Armoured personnel carrier, Aurora, Barstow, California, Betamax, Blockbuster (entertainment), Blu-ray, British Board of Film Classification, Chroma key, Compositing, Cow Palace, Damnation Alley, Day the World Ended, Dean Jeffries, Detroit, Dominique Sanda, Drivetrain, Earth, Frank J. Urioste, George Peppard, Glamis, California, Harry Stradling Jr., Imperial Valley, Intercontinental ballistic missile, J. Steven York, Jack Smight, Jackie Earle Haley, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jerry Goldsmith, Kalispell, Montana, Landmaster, Lukas Heller, Madagascar hissing cockroach, Meteor Crater, Midway (film), Mojave Desert, Murray Hamilton, Mutant, Nuclear weapon, On the Beach (1959 film), Paul Maslansky, Paul Winfield, Playboy, Radiation, Ralph Bakshi, ..., Robert Donner, Roger Zelazny, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Scorpion, Semi-trailer truck, Shout! Factory, Sound 360, Soviet Union, Star Wars (film), Superimposition, Thunder and Lightning (film), Tsunami, United States, United States Air Force, VHS, Video 2000, Wizards (film), World War III, Wrecking yard, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (21 more) »

Airport 1975

Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Airport 1975 · See more »

Alan Sharp

Alan Sharp (12 January 1934 – 8 February 2013) was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Alan Sharp · See more »

Albany, New York

Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Albany, New York · See more »

Amphibious vehicle

An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian), is a vehicle that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on (or under) water.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Amphibious vehicle · See more »

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction · See more »

Ark II

Ark II is an American live-action science fiction series, aimed at children, that aired on CBS, beginning on September 11, 1976 and ending on December 18, 1976 (as well as reruns through November 13, 1977) as part of its weekend line-up.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Ark II · See more »

Armoured personnel carrier

An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a type of armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) designed to transport infantry to the battlefield.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Armoured personnel carrier · See more »

Aurora

An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Aurora · See more »

Barstow, California

Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Barstow, California · See more »

Betamax

Betamax (also called Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog-recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Betamax · See more »

Blockbuster (entertainment)

A blockbuster is a work of entertainment – especially a feature film, but also other media – that is highly popular and financially successful.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Blockbuster (entertainment) · See more »

Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Blu-ray · See more »

British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and British Board of Film Classification · See more »

Chroma key

Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual effects/post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range).

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Chroma key · See more »

Compositing

Compositing is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Compositing · See more »

Cow Palace

Cow Palace (originally the California State Livestock Pavilion) is an indoor arena located in Daly City, California, situated on the city's northern border with neighboring San Francisco.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Cow Palace · See more »

Damnation Alley

Damnation Alley is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, based on a novella published in 1967.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Damnation Alley · See more »

Day the World Ended

Day the World Ended is a 1955 independently made black-and-white post-apocalyptic science fiction film, produced and directed by Roger Corman, that stars Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, and Mike Connors.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Day the World Ended · See more »

Dean Jeffries

Edward Dean Jeffries (February 25, 1933 – May 5, 2013) was an American custom car designer and fabricator, as well as stuntman and stunt coordinator for motion pictures and television programs based in Los Angeles, California.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Dean Jeffries · See more »

Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Detroit · See more »

Dominique Sanda

Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne (born 11 March 1948), professionally known as Dominique Sanda, is a French actress and former fashion model.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Dominique Sanda · See more »

Drivetrain

The drivetrain of a motor vehicle is the group of components that deliver power to the driving wheels.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Drivetrain · See more »

Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Earth · See more »

Frank J. Urioste

Frank Joseph Urioste (born April 28, 1938) is an American film editor with about 30 film credits.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Frank J. Urioste · See more »

George Peppard

George Peppard Jr. (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and George Peppard · See more »

Glamis, California

Glamis is an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Glamis, California · See more »

Harry Stradling Jr.

Harry Stradling Jr. (January 7, 1925 – October 17, 2017) was a two-time Oscar-nominated American cinematographer and the son of cinematographer Harry Stradling.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Harry Stradling Jr. · See more »

Imperial Valley

The Imperial Valley lies in California's Imperial County.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Imperial Valley · See more »

Intercontinental ballistic missile

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Intercontinental ballistic missile · See more »

J. Steven York

J.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and J. Steven York · See more »

Jack Smight

John R. Smight (March 9, 1925 – September 1, 2003) was an American theatre and film director.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Jack Smight · See more »

Jackie Earle Haley

Jack Earle Haley (born July 14, 1961) is an American film and television actor.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Jackie Earle Haley · See more »

Jan-Michael Vincent

Jan-Michael Vincent (born July 15, 1944) is a retired American actor best known for his role as attack helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the television series Airwolf (1984–86) and as the protagonist of 1978's Big Wednesday.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Jan-Michael Vincent · See more »

Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Jerry Goldsmith · See more »

Kalispell, Montana

Kalispell (ˈkæl əˌspɛl, ˌkæl əˈspɛl) is a city in, and the county seat of Flathead County, Montana, United States.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Kalispell, Montana · See more »

Landmaster

The Landmaster is a unique 12-wheeled amphibious articulated vehicle constructed by Dean Jeffries at Jeffries Automotive in Universal City, California for the 1977 science fiction film Damnation Alley.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Landmaster · See more »

Lukas Heller

Lukas Heller (21 July 1930 – 2 November 1988) was a German-born screenwriter.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Lukas Heller · See more »

Madagascar hissing cockroach

The Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa), also known as the hissing cockroach or simply hisser, is one of the largest species of cockroach, reaching at maturity.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Madagascar hissing cockroach · See more »

Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately east of Flagstaff and west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Meteor Crater · See more »

Midway (film)

Midway, released in the United Kingdom as Battle of Midway, is a 1976 American Technicolor war film directed by Jack Smight and produced by Walter Mirisch from a screenplay by Donald S. Sanford.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Midway (film) · See more »

Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest desert in North America.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Mojave Desert · See more »

Murray Hamilton

Murray Hamilton (March 24, 1923September 1, 1986) was an American stage, screen, and television character actor who appeared in such films as Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, The Graduate, The Amityville Horror and Jaws.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Murray Hamilton · See more »

Mutant

In biology and especially genetics, a mutant is an organism or a new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is an alteration of the DNA sequence of a gene or chromosome of an organism.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Mutant · See more »

Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Nuclear weapon · See more »

On the Beach (1959 film)

On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, that stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and On the Beach (1959 film) · See more »

Paul Maslansky

Paul Marc Maslansky (born November 23, 1933) is a film producer and writer best known for the Police Academy movies.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Paul Maslansky · See more »

Paul Winfield

Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) was an American television, film and stage actor.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Paul Winfield · See more »

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Playboy · See more »

Radiation

In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Radiation · See more »

Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American director of animated and live-action films.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Ralph Bakshi · See more »

Robert Donner

Robert Donner (April 27, 1931 – June 8, 2006) was an American television and film actor.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Robert Donner · See more »

Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Roger Zelazny · See more »

Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Salt Lake City · See more »

San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and San Francisco · See more »

Scorpion

Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Scorpion · See more »

Semi-trailer truck

A semi-trailer truck (more commonly semi truck or simply "semi") is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Semi-trailer truck · See more »

Shout! Factory

Shout! Factory is an American home video and music company founded in 2003.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Shout! Factory · See more »

Sound 360

Sound 360 was the name of a motion picture sound system used by 20th Century-Fox to enhance the premiere engagements of their 1977 feature Damnation Alley.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Sound 360 · See more »

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Soviet Union · See more »

Star Wars (film)

Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Star Wars (film) · See more »

Superimposition

Superimposition is the placement of one thing over another, typically so that both are still evident.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Superimposition · See more »

Thunder and Lightning (film)

Thunder and Lightning is a 1977 action comedy film starring David Carradine and Kate Jackson and directed by Corey Allen.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Thunder and Lightning (film) · See more »

Tsunami

A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Tsunami · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and United States · See more »

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and United States Air Force · See more »

VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and VHS · See more »

Video 2000

Video 2000 (also known as V2000, with the tape standard Video Compact Cassette, or VCC) is a consumer videocassette system and analogue recording standard developed by Philips and Grundig to compete with JVC's VHS and Sony's Betamax video technologies.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Video 2000 · See more »

Wizards (film)

Wizards is a 1977 American animated post-apocalyptic science fantasy film written, directed and produced by Ralph Bakshi.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Wizards (film) · See more »

World War III

World War III (WWIII or WW3) and the Third World War are names given to a hypothetical third worldwide large-scale military conflict subsequent to World War I and World War II.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and World War III · See more »

Wrecking yard

A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish and British English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and Wrecking yard · See more »

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

New!!: Damnation Alley (film) and 20th Century Fox · See more »

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnation_Alley_(film)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »