Revealing mistake: When the car falls off the cliff it has no engine, clearly visible when the hood flies off. (01:12:10)
Switchback (1997)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Jeb Stuart
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Ian Nelson, Brent Hinkley, Claudia Stedelin
Bob Goodall is revealed to be the serial murderer when he stabs mechanic Clyde 'Shorty' Callahan, Lane Dixon learns he's a killer when he slashes train engineer Tex Monroe. Frank LaCrosse catches up to the train both of them are on and since he mistakes Lane for his suspect he ends up letting Bob a chance to slice Lane's throat. A scrape soon breaks out between Bob and Frank which climaxes on both dangling from an ice breaker. Bob falls off and lands on a broken off tree branch which impales him right through his chest. Before Lane loses consciousness he manages to write out where Andy LaCrosse is hidden. Frank with the aid of Sheriff Buck Olmstead is reunited with his son.
MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES
More mistakes in Switchback
Deputy Nate Booker: Maybe we should have turned him in.
Sheriff Buck Olmstead: Maybe we should have done a lot of things differently... But turning Frank in was never an option.
Deputy Nate Booker: Why not?
Sheriff Buck Olmstead: Because he told the truth. Once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey.
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