The Wrecker
The Wrecker is a British play, written in 1924 by Arnold Ridley, who much later played Private Godfrey in Dad's Army.
The play is about an old engine driver who thinks his engine is malevolent and self-aware. The finale is a huge train wreck using elaborate stage special-effects as per The Ghost Train, an earlier and more famous play by Ridley.
The play ran for 165 performances at St. Martin's Lane Theatre and was adapted as a film under the same title.
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See also
- The Ghost Train, the earlier 1923 play by Arnold Ridley
- "You Drive," a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone
- My Mother the Car, a 1965 television sitcom series about a man whose mother has been reincarnated as a dilapidated "1928 Porter touring car"
- The Love Bug, a 1968 comedy film about an anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle
- Killdozer!, a 1974 made-for-TV horror movie based on a short story by Theodore Sturgeon of the same name
- The Car, a 1977 film about an anthropomorphic customized 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III
- The Hearse, a 1980 horror movie about a possessed hearse
- Christine, a 1983 novel by Stephen King about an anthropomorphic 1958 Plymouth Fury
- Christine, the 1983 horror film based on the King novel
- Nightmares, a 1983 movie made up of four separate story segments; the third segment, "The Benediction", stars Lance Henriksen who plays a traveling priest attacked on the highway by a demonic 4x4
- Maximum Overdrive, a 1986 horror movie; and Trucks, a 1997 made-for-TV remake film; both based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King
- The Wraith, a 1986 film starring Charlie Sheen who plays a man murdered by a gang of car thieves who gets revenge upon his killers by returning as a phantom car and driver set out to eliminate them
- From a Buick 8, a 2002 novel by Stephen King about a deadly 1954 Buick Roadmaster
- Phantom Racer, a 2009 SyFy movie about a possessed race car
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