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Battletruck | |
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Directed by | Harley Cokliss |
Written by | Michael Abrams Irving Austin John Beech Harley Cokliss |
Produced by | Lloyd Phillips Rob Whitehouse |
Starring | Michael Beck Annie McEnroe James Wainwright |
Cinematography | Chris Menges |
Edited by | Michael Horton |
Music by | Kevin Peek |
Production company | Battletruck Films |
Distributed by | New World Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Countries | New Zealand United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.3 million[1] |
Battletruck (also known as Warlords of the 21st Century in the U.S. and Destructors in Italy) is a 1982 New Zealand post-apocalyptic science fiction action film co-written and directed by Harley Cokliss and starring Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright, John Ratzenberger, and Bruno Lawrence.
Set in the aftermath of a devastating series of wars referred to as the Oil Wars, the plot is a futuristic tale of a community fighting against a local warlord in the lawless rural countrywide. A co-production between New Zealand and the United Kingdom, it was filmed on location in New Zealand and starring a number of local actors, and was part of a wave of similarly-themed films made in the wake of the success of the Mad Max series.