Deathsport
company: New World Pictures
year: 1978
runtime: 82′
director: Allan Arkush,
Nicholas Niciphor and Roger Corman
cast: David Carradine, Claudia Jennings,
Richard Lynch, David McLean
writer: Nicholas Niciophor,
Frances Doel and Donald Stewart
photography: Gary Graver
music: Andy Stein
company: New World Pictures
year: 1978
runtime: 82′
director: Allan Arkush,
Nicholas Niciphor and Roger Corman
cast: David Carradine, Claudia Jennings,
Richard Lynch, David McLean
writer: Nicholas Niciophor,
Frances Doel and Donald Stewart
photography: Gary Graver
music: Andy Stein
BattleTruck
company: Battletruck Films, Ltd.
year: 1982
runtime: 91′
director: Harley Cokeliss
cast: Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe,
James Wainwright, Bruno Lawrence,
John Ratzenberger, John Bach
writer: Margaret Abrams, Irving Austin,
John Beech and Harley Cokeliss
photography: Chris Menges
music: Kevin Peek
company: Battletruck Films, Ltd.
year: 1982
runtime: 91′
director: Harley Cokeliss
cast: Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe,
James Wainwright, Bruno Lawrence,
John Ratzenberger, John Bach
writer: Margaret Abrams, Irving Austin,
John Beech and Harley Cokeliss
photography: Chris Menges
music: Kevin Peek
The Deathsport / BattleTruck double feature is due out on August 3rd, and can currently be pre-ordered at considerable savings through Amazon.com
The first of Shout! Factory’s Roger Corman’s Cult Classics double feature DVDs brings together two wildly disparate but thematically complementary New World catalog titles – 1978’s Deathsport, roughly inspired by the earlier Death Race 2000, and 1982’s BattleTruck, an independent production from New Zealand distributed in the United States by Corman’s company. While the former was made available on DVD in 2000, the latter here makes its domestic digital debut.
