Death Car on the Freeway is a 1979 made for television movie starring Shelley Hack. In a plot similar to Steven Spielberg's Duel, this tells the story of an unseen psychotic driver who is dubbed the Freeway Fiddler.
Former stuntman Hal Needham directed Hack, who plays Janette Clausen, a TV reporter investigating a series of freeway murders. The psycho van driver is deliberately targeting and killing female motorists. Ultimately, however, when the driver targets Clausen herself, he inevitably falls victim to his own treachery and crashes to his fiery death.
While essentially a standard thriller, it is pepped up by the presence of several TV veterans, including George Hamilton, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves, Dinah Shore, Harriet Nelson, Barbara Rush and Abe Vigoda. Director Needham even turns up in a supporting role. The face of the driver was never shown, and he had no lines; nor were any of the stunt drivers who "acted him out" credited.
Death Car on the Freeway first aired on CBS television on September 25, 1979.
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