SHAKER RUN

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Year
1985
Reference
F2938
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1985
Reference
F2938
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa, United States of America
Categories
Feature
Duration
1:30:00
Production company
Mirage Films, Laurelwood productions
Credits
Cast: Cliff Robertson
Cast: Leif Garret
Cast: Lisa Harrow
Cast: Shane Briant
Cast: Peter Rowell
Cast: Peter Hayden
Cast: Bruce Phillips
Cast: Fiona Samuels
Cast: Deidre O’connor
Cast: Nathaniel Lees
Cast: Daniel Gillion
Director: Bruce Morrison
Producer: Larry Parr
Producer: Igo Kantor
Executive Producer: Henry Fownes
Writer: James Kouf Jnr
Writer: Henry Fownes
Writer: Bruce Morrison
Production Designer: Ron Highfield
Music: Stephen McCurdy
Director of Photography: Kevin Hayward
Camera: Alan Locke
Production Manager: William Grieve
Editor: Ken Zemke
Editor: Bob Richardson
Funded By: New Zealand Film Commission
Barry Gordon: Ian Mune

An action adventure movie featuring two Americans and their pink and black Trans Am, Shaker. Struggling to make ends meet, Judd Pierson, once a top racing driver, and his young mechanic friend Casey Lee are in New Zealand touring a one man stunt show. A chance meeting with Dr Christine Rubin provides a means for Judd and Casey to make some quick money. Christine is involved in a top secret operation to smuggle a deadly virus out of the country and into the hands of the CIA. Judd and Casey agree to drive her and her cargo on a high speed race to meet the drop off deadline.

“We were trying within a sort of comic-book, fast-moving style for as much reality as possible, so it was fast- for- fast and stunts-for-real. We were also after a general certificate, so I had much pleasure in expunging most blood, violence (except auto-violence) and overt sex. It made me feel quite wholesome” (Bruce Morrison,1985 London Film Festival programme)