Wheels of Terror is a 1990

1990 in film

The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

 television movie

Television movie

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, directed by Christopher Cain

Christopher Cain

Christopher Cain is an American screenwriter, actor, director, and singer. He married Sharon Thomas in 1969 and adopted her two sons, Roger and Dean Cain. The couple's daughter Krisinda Cain Schafer was born in 1973....

, starring Joanna Cassidy

Joanna Cassidy

Joanna Cassidy is an American film and television actress. She is known for her role as the replicant Zhora in the Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner...

 and Marcie Leeds. The film originally debuted on the USA Network

USA Network

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 in 1990. Marcie Leeds was nominated for a Young Artist Award

Young Artist Award

The Young Artist Award is an accolade bestowed by the Young Artist Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to recognize and award excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically and/or financially challenged.The Young Artist...

 for Best Young Actress in a Cable Special.

Plot

The unseen driver of a black Dodge Charger, (consisting of mixed year's makes '71, '74) is kidnapping, molesting, and sometimes murdering young girls around Copper Valley, Arizona. When the daughter of a bus driver (Leeds) is kidnapped right in front of her mother (Cassidy), a chase through the tough Arizona terrain begins as the mother tries to get her daughter back.

Cast

• Joanna Cassidy
  Joanna Cassidy
  Joanna Cassidy is an American film and television actress. She is known for her role as the replicant Zhora in the Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner...
  
  as Laura
• Marcie Leeds as Stephanie
• Carlos Cervantes as Luis
• Arlen Dean Snyder as Drummond
• Henry Max Kendrick as Kellogg