Race with the Devil

Race with the Devil
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJack Starrett
Written by
Produced byWes Bishop
Starring
CinematographyRobert Jessup
Edited byJohn F. Link
Music byLeonard Rosenman
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • June 27, 1975 (1975-06-27)
Running time
88 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.745 million[2]
Box office$12 million[3] or $6 million[4]

Race with the Devil is a 1975 American action horror film directed by Jack Starrett, written by Wes Bishop and Lee Frost, and starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, and Lara Parker. Its plot follows two couples on a road trip who are pursued by a Satanic cult after witnessing a human sacrifice while camping in rural Texas. This was the second of three films Fonda and Oates would star in together (The Hired Hand, (1971) was their first, and 92 in the Shade (1975) was their third). Race with the Devil is a hybrid of the horror, action, and car chase genres.

  1. ^ "RACE WITH THE DEVIL (AA)". British Board of Film Classification. June 19, 1975. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  2. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p258
  3. ^ "Race with the Devil, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  4. ^ Goldman, Lowell (Fall 1990). "Peter Fonda: I Know What It's Like to Be Dead". Psychotronic Video. No. 7. p. 36.