At 5:14 PM -0700 5/16/02, Patrice L. Roussel wrote:
I have tried for a long time to figure out a movie that I watched twenty years ago. The movie was done in the seventies and it is about a group of people (a family? friends?) who flee a big town because of some terrible accident (nuclear? biologic?). On their way to a refuge in the countryside, they are constantly attacked by outlaws who take advantage of the disarray in which the society has fallen following the accident.
I don't know the name of it, but I have a memory of a similar film from the 70s, and I dunno, maybe some of these details fit. As I remember, it was obviously filmed in Southern California. The premise seemed to have something to with a natural disaster--something happening to the sun. I recall a lot of lens flare shots of the sun, with this string section glissando on the soundtrack; any character caught outside during one of those scenes died in some fashion--dehydration? Fatal sunburn? One of the conceits seemed to be that the fleeing protagonists a) had to flee the people chasing them, but b) there movements were impeded by that sun constraint. And I seem to recall that the climax happened around an abandoned ranch. Does any of this seem to match your memories of this film? I went through a similar experience with a half-remembered Saturday TV movie which must have been done in the 60s; fortunately I remembered enough to (over several Web searches) figure out that it was the low-budget film _The Time Travellers_. Haven't seen it again yet, though. HTH, M -- Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/