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The Big Bus is a american film of genre Comedy directed by James Frawley released in USA on 23 june 1976 with Joseph Bologna
The Big Bus (1976)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 23 june 1976
Length 1h28
Directed by James Frawley
OriginUSA
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Road movies, Disaster films, American disaster films
Rating55%
The Big Bus is a 1976 American comedy film starring Stockard Channing and Joseph Bologna, and directed by James Frawley. A spoof of the disaster movie genre (which was popular at the time), it follows the maiden cross-country trip of an enormous nuclear powered bus named Cyclops.
The Big Bus received mostly bad reviews and had a disastrous performance at the box office but has recently been recognized as a cult classic of its genre. It is rated PG.
Director Frawley won the audience award at the 1977 Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival.
Synopsis
Coyote Bus Lines' scientists and designers work feverishly to complete Cyclops, a state-of-the-art jumbo bus, enabling man to achieve a new milestone in bussing: non-stop service between New York City and Denver. Almost immediately after the bus's engine is equipped with nuclear fuel, a bomb goes off, critically injuring Professor Baxter, the scientist in charge of the project. Cyclops itself is undamaged, but Coyote Lines has lost both its driver and co-driver.Actors
Joseph Bologna
(Dan Torrance)
Stockard Channing
(Kitty Baxter)
John Beck
(Shoulders)
René Auberjonois
(Father Kudos)
José Ferrer
(Ironman)
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