The Wayward Bus

Tagline : The Steinbeck people! The Steinbeck passions! The Steinbeck power!

Runtime : 87 mins

Genre : Drama

Vote Rating : 5.8/10

Budget : 1.5 million $ USD

Revenue : 1.8 million $ USD


Reviews for this movie are available below.

Plot : 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.

Cast Members

Disclaimer - This is a news site. All the information listed here is to be found on the web elsewhere. We do not host, upload or link to any video, films, media file, live streams etc. Kodiapps is not responsible for the accuracy, compliance, copyright, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content streamed to/from your device. We are not connected to or in any other way affiliated with Kodi, Team Kodi, or the XBMC Foundation. We provide no support for third party add-ons installed on your devices, as they do not belong to us. It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with all your regional legalities and personal access rights regarding any streams to be found on the web. If in doubt, do not use.
DMCA Policy
- Privacy Policy
Kodiapps app v7.0 - Available for Android. You can now add latest scene releases to your collection with Add to Trakt. More features and updates coming to this app real soon.
Tip : Add https://kodiapps.com/rss to your RSS Ticker in System/Appearance/Skin settings to get the very latest Movie & TV Show release info delivered direct to your Kodi Home Screen. Builders are free to use it for their builds too.
You can get all the very release news and updates direct from our Telegram group.
Our Twitter and Facebook pages are no longer supported.

Reviews

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 of occupants. The glamorous and savvy "Camille" (Jayne Mansfield) soon attracts the attention of travelling salesman "Horton" (Dan Dailey) and the slightly sleazy "Pritchard" (Larry Keating) who is travelling with his rather high maintenance wife "Bernice" (Kathryn Givney) and daughter "Mildred" (Dolores Michaels) and, finally, they've got the rather curmudgeonly "Van Brunt" (Will Wright). As the weather closes in and they have to take a diversion along a washboard, desert, road, the characters on the bus appear, gradually, to face the sane uncertainty in their lives as the bus does on it's increasingly perilous journey. Meantime, poor old "Alice" is stuck at home nursing a bottle, having a bath and bemoaning the absence of her husband. Can they reconcile? For the first half hour or so, this is actually not bad. Thereafter, though, it strays well over the border into soap. Mansfield has probably the strongest character and plays quite well but Collins just hasn't the skill to carry off her role with anything like a convincing performance. The last twenty minutes rob the film of what jeopardy the wet and windy journey had hitherto established and by the end you just know what is going to happen - and it's nothing special.

Similar Movies

The Table

Four different women discuss life, love and marriage with people from their past and present during the course of one day at a café in Seoul.

On the Go

To be, or not to be a mother, that is the question. A road movie where music, sexuality and contradictions accompany the main characters on a trip through southern Spain in a '67 Corvair. Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan seeks solace in Grindr in order to overcome abandonment issues.

Live Flesh

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!

Withnail & I

Two out-of-work actors - the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail - spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Keane

A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriends a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the missing piece of the puzzle?

Cross Country Cruise

A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.

Citizen Dog

Pod decides to change jobs after losing his finger at a sardine packing plant. His new job as a security guard comes with an unexpected perk in the form of a lanky maid who carries a mysterious white book.

Chain of Events

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

The Return

The relationships among two pre-pubescent brothers and their estranged father are tested on a trip into the Russian wilderness.

The Apartment

Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, when Max catches a glimpse of the great lost love of his life, he becomes obsessed with rekindling their relationship.

Girl Going to the City

Lee Mun-hi works as a bus conductor. She is tormented by the fact that she is subject to body searches, but tries to treat her co-workers nicely and live an honest life. She is kind to people who are less fortunate than her and falls in love with Kwang-seok, a traveling salesman. She helps Kwang-seok become a crewman of the ship and promises to marry him. When she is subjected to another body search, she protests against the humiliation and jumps from the roof of her company building. She is critically injured and is embraced by Kwang-seok.