End Play (1976)
Genre : Thriller
Runtime : 1H 54M
Director : Tim Burstall
Synopsis
And just when you believe there is nothing more to fear, you will begin to experience the ultimate terror of the END PLAY.
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Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
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