Federal agent Ray Faulkner poses as a road gang convict and arranges the escape of a group of hardened chain-gang criminals. He forces them at gunpoint into a helicopter. In a flashback, Faulkner … See more

• Christopher George as Faulkner
• Fabian as Sonny
• Tom Nardini as Billy Joe
• Leslie Parrish as … See more

The film was based on a story by Larry Gordon, a story editor at AIP. The first draft was written by James Gordon White, who had written several films for AIP, but White was then assigned to Killers Three. White says the original version was meant to star Jack Palance but … See more

The film opened in Los Angeles on April 9, 1969 in 15 theatres and grossed $67,000 in its first week.
In a contemporary review for the Los Angeles Times, critic Kevin Thomas called The Devil's 8 "an amiably preposterous, rambunctious … See more

• List of American films of 1969 See more

• Segaloff, Nat, "John Milius: The Good Fights", Backstory 4: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s, Ed. Patrick McGilligan, Uni of California 2006 p 274-316 See more

• The Devil's 8 at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• The Devil's 8 at IMDb
• The Devil's 8 at Grindhouse Database
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