Pat Quid is driving a semi across Australia. On the way he encounters various other travellers, and the occasional hitchhikers repeatedly as they’re traveling the same road. A favorite pastime of Pat is to play games to pass the time on the journey. (Such as to make up backgrounds of the other people on the road.) Pamela is one hitchhiker he picks up. But when she disappears, he suspects that the driver of a van who has been acting a little strange, (Smith or Jones) maybe the serial killer mentioned on the radio. But his pursuit of the van driver brings him to the attention of the police, who begin to suspect him. —IMDb
Starts out promising, with a murder sequence that recalls both the giallo and a movie like *Dressed to Kill*, but it quickly settles into something more run of the mill. A little too much of Keach quoting poetry and talking to himself about the plot as substitute for anything happening; also, after some nice interaction between Keach and Curtis, Curtis disappears from the movie for almost all of its final third.
Franklin's narrative pulse is stylish, and careful in execution, but If the plot was tighter, without losing its north/credibility -especially around the finale- the film would had been a lot better. Underrated Stacy Keach brings a lot of charisma and bravado to his part.
