APRIL 10
The Last Chase
Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Alexandra Stewart, Diane D’Aquila, George Touliatos, Harvey Atkin, Ben Gordon, Hugh Webster, Deborah Burgess, Trudy Young, Moses Znaimer, Doug Lennox, Paul Amato, Warren Van Evera, Sammy Snyders, David Stelmack, Glenna Jones, Robert Christie, Vladimir Bondarenko, Chris Cunningham, Walker Boone, John Kennedy, Ed Jacobs, Bill Laliotis, Lynette Louise
cinematography by Paul Van der Linden
music by Gil Mellé
screenplay by C.R. O’Christopher and Roy Moore & Martyn Burke
story by C.R. O’Christopher
produced by Martyn Burke and Fran Rosati
directed by Martyn Burke
Rated PG
1 hr 41 mins
A bratty electronics whiz-kid and a retired race car driver try to outrace a high-tech jet so they can escape a fascist future and find their way to Free California.
Martyn Burke’s best-known film he was involved in was the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy Top Secret! They struggled with the script for that film for several years, generating a small mountain of material that had no narrative structure whatsoever. Burke was brought in near the end of the process to take all of the comedy bits and pieces and try to engineer a story out of them, and the entire Z-A-Z team credits him with him figuring out how to turn it into a movie.
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