Riding with Death

TV Movie
1976
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

1.9/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

Action Sci-Fi Thriller

Dimwitted, meaty guy foils criminals by turning invisible.Dimwitted, meaty guy foils criminals by turning invisible.Dimwitted, meaty guy foils criminals by turning invisible.

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IMDb RATING

1.9/10

1.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
This movie was pieced together from two episodes of the failed Gemini Man (1976) TV series, plus some computer room footage and sound effects from the science fiction film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).

Goofs
A villain cuts the brake line of the "Central Moving" truck that Sam Casey is driving. The truck, however has air brakes - which are engaged only when the brake system is charged - cutting the brake line on air brake would cause all brake shoes to engage and stop the truck dead.

Quotes
Leonard Driscoll: You're as elusive as Robert Denby!

Alternate versions
Two versions of this movie exist. In the cut shown on "Mystery Science Theater 3000", background information from the pilot film of "Gemini Man" (episodes of which were combined for this movie) are presented via opening narration and stills, and later flashbacks. In the alternate version (shown at the 2000 Gateway Media Convention in St. Louis), the narration and flashbacks are not present. Instead, the movie opens with a condensed version of the Gemini Man's "origin" from the first part of the pilot film. Also, some of the dubbed-in lines linking the two original episodes this movie is taken from differ in each version.

Connections
Edited from Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Certainly not. This, the Master Ninja stuff, and two Kolchak movies (Crackle of Death, and Demon & The Mummy) display the odd penchant for taking two bad episodes of a TV show and stitching them together into one crummy movie. The strategy behind this is the studio wants to save the good episodes for separate syndication, so whoever makes these movies takes the worst episodes and stitches them together. I'm old enough to have seen Gemini Man, and these _are_ the worst episodes of that series, which displayed a modicum of intelligence at the best of times. They deliberately pick out the worst episodes to save the best for syndication, and the result is this unwatchable crap.