Toecutter and Johnny ride away, and Max staggers to his car and chases Toecutter, whom he forces into the path of an approaching semi-truck.Īfter a long search, Max finds Johnny stealing boots from a dead motorist. Bubba shoots Max in the leg and drives over his arm before Max is able to shoot Bubba with a sawn-off shotgun. He kills several gang members before being caught in a trap set by Toecutter, Bubba and Johnny. Sprog is killed instantly, while a comatose Jessie is brought to the ICU, where she is expected to succumb to her injuries.ĭriven into a rage by the loss of his family, Max dons his police uniform and takes the black Pursuit Special without authorization to pursue and eliminate the gang. Jessie grabs Sprog and runs down the road until the gang catches up and runs them over.
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May helps Jessie free the boy and the trio escapes in the van, but it soon breaks down. The gang follows and chases Jessie through the woods, and they capture Sprog while Max is off looking for them. She escapes, and the family flees to a remote farm owned by an elderly friend named May Swaisey. When they stop to fix the spare tire, Jessie takes Sprog to get ice cream and is molested by Toecutter and his gang. Fifi convinces him to take some time off and think it over, so Max goes on a trip in his panel van with his wife, Jessie, and infant son, "Sprog" (Australian slang for a child). Toecutter urges, and then forces, a reluctant Johnny to throw a match into the wreck of the ute, burning Goose alive.Īfter seeing Goose's charred body in the hospital ICU, Max informs Fifi that he is resigning from the MFP to save what is left of his sanity. On the way, Johnny throws a brake drum through his windshield, and he crashes again. Dazed, but uninjured, Goose borrows a ute to haul his bike back to MFP headquarters. While Goose visits a nightclub in the city that night, Johnny sabotages his police motorbike, causing it to lock up at high speed the next day and launch Goose off the road. No witnesses appear in court and Johnny is deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, however, so, against Goose's furious objections, he is released into Bubba's custody. Max and fellow officer Jim "Goose" Rains arrest Toecutter's young protégé, Johnny the Boy, at the scene.
A young couple attempts to escape, but the gang destroys their car and rapes them. Nightrider's motorbike gang, which is led by Toecutter and Bubba Zanetti, run riot in a town, vandalising property, stealing fuel, and terrorising the populace. A conversation between Max's superior, Captain Fred "Fifi" Macaffee, and Police Commissioner Labatouche reveals the Pursuit Special was authorised to bribe Max, who is becoming weary of police work, into staying on the force.
Nightrider is able to elude the MFP until the organization's top pursuit man, Max Rockatansky, manages to break his concentration and steer him into a roadblock, resulting in a fiery crash that kills both Nightrider and his girlfriend.Īt the MFP garage, Max is shown his new police car: a specially-built supercharged V8-powered black Pursuit Special. In a near-future dystopian Australia that is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily due to widespread oil shortages, berserk motorbike gang member Crawford "Nightrider" Montazano kills a rookie officer of the poorly-funded Main Force Patrol (MFP)-one of the last remaining law enforcement agencies-and escapes with his girlfriend in the dead officer's Pursuit Special. In 2020, a fifth film, to be titled Furiosa, was announced. The film became the first in the Mad Max series, giving rise to three sequels: Mad Max 2 (1981), Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Fury Road (2015). The success of Mad Max has been credited for further opening up the global market to Australian New Wave films. Filmed on a budget of A$400,000, it earned more than US$100 million worldwide in gross revenue and set a Guinness record for most profitable film. The film initially received a polarized reception upon its release in April 1979, although it won four AACTA Awards. Principal photography for Mad Max took place in and around Melbourne and lasted for six weeks. James McCausland and Miller wrote the screenplay from a story by Miller and Kennedy. Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, and Roger Ward also star. Mel Gibson stars as "Mad" Max Rockatansky, a police officer turned vigilante in a near-future Australia in the midst of societal collapse. Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and produced by Byron Kennedy.
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