Movies and TvShows featuring "runaway-truck" theme.

A high school student named Rick Riker gains superpowers after being bitten by a genetically-altered dragonfly. With his new abilities, he becomes a superhero and tries to save the city from an evil villain.

In 'The Card,' a man with big dreams and little means sets out on a hilarious adventure to achieve success. With a series of comical mishaps, he navigates through various obstacles and tries to overcome them with his resourcefulness and charm. Along the way, he encounters love, friendship, and unexpected opportunities that shape his journey. Will he be able to turn his life around and prove that fortune favors the bold?

After his father falls victim to a treacherous produce market conspiracy, a man sets out to seek revenge against the criminals responsible. Along the way, he encounters various obstacles and forms unexpected alliances in order to bring justice to the wholesale produce business in 1940s San Francisco.

An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.

After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.

When a traveling salesman's car is stolen, he is forced to hitchhike with a senator's daughter. As they journey together, they face various obstacles including a police chase, a mud-covered junkyard, and a robbery. Along the way, they form a unique bond and learn valuable life lessons.

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.

Feature version of the 1943 serial "The Masked Marvel", q.v., edited for television syndication and 16mm rental only.

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a boy in modern Netherlands. Persecution, loneliness, adults’ hostility, fear, mixture of obstinacy and tenderness, and even an imprisonment. Excellent camera movement and delicate portraying of Ciske’s fragile soul put this film out of merely historical context and ensure its place in the history of great cinema.

Al St. John buys a touring car and takes his extended family on a disastrous trip.

A young man faces perilous adventures when he is evicted from his apartment.

The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.