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On July 15, 1976, in Chowchilla, California, three armed men hijacked a school bus. They abducted the driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, and imprisoned them in a truck trailer buried in a quarry in Livermore, California. The bus driver and children managed to escape before the kidnappers could issue their ransom demands.
Breakdown is a 1997 American crime thriller film directed and co-written by Jonathan Mostow.It stars Kurt Russell, J. T. Walsh and Kathleen Quinlan. [2] The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris.
Maindrian Pace is a respectable insurance investigator who runs an automobile chop shop in Long Beach, California.He is also the leader of a professional car theft ring that steals and resells stolen cars, disguising them using vehicle identification numbers, engines, parts, and details (such as parking decals and bumper stickers) sourced from legitimately purchased wrecks.
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...
'Convoy' is a bad joke that backfires on the director. He has neither the guts to play the movie straight as melodrama nor the sense of humor to turn it into a kind of 'Smokey and the Bandit' comedy. The movie is a big, costly, phony exercise in myth-making, machismo, romance-of-the-open-road nonsense and incredible self-indulgence."
About 30 minutes later, at 4:30 p.m., in Northern California, police responded to a call about a disturbance and escorted about 50 young people from a store at the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville.
Brake is a 2012 American action thriller film [1] directed by Gabe Torres, written by Timothy Mannion, and starring Stephen Dorff.It follows a U.S. Secret Service special agent who is held captive in the trunk of a car by terrorists aiming to extract information about the U.S. president's secret bunker.
Filmed in Georgia and rural inland California in the spring of 1992, Kalifornia premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 27, 1993, where it was awarded two competition prizes. It was released theatrically the following week in the United States, but was a box office bomb , grossing $2.4 million against a nearly $9 million budget.