

The Wayward Bus
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Three strangers embark on a life-changing journey on a fateful bus ride. As the road presents challenges, each character faces his or her own shortcomings, not knowing where life will lead next.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $1.8M
- Language
- English
- bus
- cafe
- roadtrip
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- TheatricalNR27 May 1957
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The Wayward Bus was released on 27 May 1957.
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1- C6/10
CinemaSerf
4/20/2023
The rather dashing "Johnny" (Rick Jason - he reminded me of Laurence Harvey a bit) runs his bus service/diner with help from the young "Kit" (Dee Pollack) and his dipso wife "Alice" (Joan Collins). She is jealous of just about everyone and when she slaps their waitress "Norma" (Betty Lou Keim) he has had enough. He embarks his passengers and sets off - amidst quite a thunderstorm - to San Reno. The bus has a mixture …
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