Detour to Terror

1980

Action / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 184 184

Director

Michael O'Herlihy Photo
Michael O'Herlihy

Top cast

Gerald S. O'Loughlin Photo
Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Martin Brain
Arte Johnson Photo
Arte Johnson as Harry Edwards
Paula Victor Photo
Paula Victor as Sarah
Lorenzo Lamas Photo
Lorenzo Lamas as Jamie
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899.44 MB
956*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.63 GB
1424*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by udar55 6 / 10

Fun TV movie time waster

A tour group (led by Arte Johnson!) heads to Las Vegas via a greyhoud bus (driven by O. J. Simpson!). Crap tables are soon the least of their worries though as they are taken hostage by a group of criminals (led by Lorenzo Lamas!). Seems they want to kidnap the wife of a wealthy businessman, but don't know he is on this trip with his girlfriend instead.According to the L. A. Times, this was the second of a three picture deal Simpson had signed with NBC (it was preceded by Goldie and the Boxer in 1979 and followed by Goldie and the Boxer go to Hollywood in 1981) and they ran it in February 1980 as counter programming against the Winter Olympics. This is entertaining and makes good use of the desert locations. The cast is good and Johnson even has a nice dramatic bit where he talks about being a lonely tour guide. Fans of Deathstalker (1983) will be excited to see Rick Hill in here. He plays - what else? - an athlete. The one weird thing is Lamas apparently adopts an Elvis-like voice as the ring leader. Also, look closely in the background and you'll see Simpon's future wife Nicole as one of the bus passengers. The film was directed by Michael O'Herlihy (brother of Dan!) and it was one of six tele-films he had debut that year.
Reviewed by tamstrat

OJ when we still liked him

Oh the good old days, when OJ Simpson was the likable, earnest former football player/Hertz spokesman/terrible actor/producer----oh the good old days.This movie, made in 1980 and executive produced by Simpson himself is simply awful, he should have stuck to football, this movie SUCKS.The story of a busload of tourists heading to Las Vegas who get hijacked and left in the middle of the fricking desert is just too awful to describe. The acting is awful, the writing-terrible, the dialogue inane, it is just completely lame. OJ plays the bus driver, who tries to save the passengers. Eerily, Nicole Brown Simpson plays one of the passengers and it is creepy to see her on the screen with Simpson knowing what was to happen to her later.If this is the only thing on TV playing on the TV late at night, run, don't walk away---it's that bad!!!!!
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