Disaster on the Coastliner
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Cast
- Lloyd Bridges - Al Mitchell
- Raymond Burr - Estes Hill
- Robert Fuller - Matt Leigh
- Pat Hingle - John Marsh
- E.G. Marshall - Roy Snyder
- Yvette Mimieux - Paula Harvey
- William Shatner - Stuart Peters
- Paul L. Smith - Jim Waterman / Victor Prescott
Production
The film was shot on a disused railway line in Connecticut. At his own suggestion William Shatner did his own stunts, including standing atop an F40PH. Years later Shatner called the stunt "the most truly dangerous stunt I ever did" and couldn't imagine "what [he] was thinking" in suggesting it. Shatner compared it to the work he'd done in Kingdom of the Spiders, and wondered which was worse: "standing on top of a speeding locomotive without any kind of safety cable or gluing tarantulas to your face?"[1]:105–108 Jack Sessums worked on the miniature effects and had his work profiled in TV Guide.[2]
Release
Disaster on the Coastliner premiered on The ABC Sunday Night Movie on October 28, 1979.[3]
See also
List of television films produced for American Broadcasting Company
References
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