On this day in movie history - Road Games (1981)

Road Games

a.k.a. Roadgames,

directed by Richard Franklin,

written by Everett De Roche,

based on a story by Everett De Roche and Richard Franklin,

was released in the United States on February 27, 1981.

Music by Brian May.

Cast:

Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Thaddeus Smith, Steve Millichamp, Alan Hopgood, John Murphy, Bill Stacey, Robert Thompson, Ed Turley, Angelica La Bozzetta, Colin Vancao, Paul Harris, Rochelle Harris, Tony Bishop, Abbe Holmes, Carole-Ann Aylett, Killer (the dog), Les James, Tom Ryan.

Born on this day – Bill Hunter:

 

Actor

February 27, 1940 – May 21, 2011

Born on this day – N. Scott Momaday:

 

Writer

February 27, 1934 – January 24, 2024

Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George W. Bush in 2007.

Credits:

A First American Views His Land (1976); Again the Far Morning (2011); Ancestral Voice (1989); Ancient Child (1989); Angle of Geese and Other Poems (1974); Bringing on the Indians (1971); Circle of Wonder (1993); Colorado (1978); Conversations with N. Scott Momaday (1997); Discovering the Land of Light (1985); Dream Drawings (2022); Earth Keeper (2020); Four Arrows & Magpie (2006); House Made of Dawn (1968); In the Bear's House (1999); In the Presence of the Sun (1992); Meditations (2016); On Bavarian Byways (1986); Sacred Legacy (2000); Storyteller (1992); The American Indian in an Unhappy Hunting Ground (1969); The Best of the West (1991); The Colors of Night (1976); The Death of Sitting Bear (poems);  (2020); The Gourd Dancer (1976); The Journey of Tai-Me (1967); The Man Made of Words (1997); The Names (1976); The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000); Three Plays (2019).

Born on this day – Irwin Shaw:

 

Writer

February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984

Credits:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); Acceptable Losses (1982); Act of Faith and Other Stories (1946); Arena: Sports Science Fiction (1976); Beggarman, Thief (1977); Bread Upon the Waters (1981); Brooklyn Noir 2 (2005); Bury the Dead (1935); Evening In Byzantium (1973); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); God Was Here But He Left Early (1973); Great World War II Stories (1989); In the Company of Dolphins (1964); Love on a Dark Street (1965); Lucy Crown (1956); Mixed Company (1950); Nightwork (1975); Paris! Paris! (1977); Points of View (1956); Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories! (1987); Retreat (1988); Rich Man, Poor Man (1969); Sailor Off the Bremen and Other Stories (1939); Selected Short Stories of Irwin Shaw (1961); Short Stories (1978); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); The Amis Story Anthology (1992); The Top of the Hill (1979); The Troubled Air (1951); The Young Lions (1948); This Was Your War (1960); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); Two Weeks In Another Town (1960); Voices of a Summer Day (1951); Welcome to the city and other stories (2002); Whispers In Bedlam (1972); Wonderful Town (2000); Writing New York (1998).

Born on this day – Joan Bennett:

 

Actress

February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990

Born on this day – John Steinbeck:

 

Writer

February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

Credits:

Burning Bright (1950); Cannery Row (1945); Cup of Gold (1929); East of Eden (1952); Five Best Sellers (1989); In Dubious Battle (1936); Nothing So Monstrous (1936); Of Mice and Men (1937); Of Mice and Men and Short Stories (1937); Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (1978); Sweet Thursday (1954); The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976); The Forgotten Village (1941); The Gift (1992); The Grapes of Wrath (1939); The Long Valley (1938); The Moon Is Down (1942); The Moon Is Down and Short Stories (1942); The Pastures of Heaven (1932); The Pearl (1948); The Red Pony (1933); The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (1953); The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957); The Vigilante (2018); The Wayward Bus (1947); The Winter of Our Discontent (1961); To A God Unknown (1933); Tortilla Flat (1935); Viva Zapata (1975); Zapata (1993).

Born on this day – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

 

Writer

February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882

Credits:

Aftermath (1873); Ballads and Other Poems (1841); Christus: A Mystery (1872); Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique (1833); Dante's Divine Comedy (1867); Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847); Flower-de-Luce (1867); Household Poems (1865); Hyperion (1839); ; In the Harbor (1882); Kavanagh (1849); Kéramos and Other Poems (1878); Michel Angelo: A Fragment; Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea (1835); Poems of Places (1874); Poems on Slavery (1842); Poets and Poetry of Europe (1844); Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863); The Arrow and the Song; The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845); The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (1858); The Divine Tragedy (1871); The Golden Legend (1851); The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi (1863); The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875); The New England Tragedies (1868); The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852); The Seaside and the Fireside (1850); The Song of Hiawatha (1855); The Spanish Student (1843); The Waif (1845); Three Books of Song (1872); Ultima Thule (1880); Voices of the Night (1839).

Sam Horn, on writing:

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book.
They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

- Sam Horn.