The Road Warrior

Mad Max (Mel Gibson), a heroic loner and former cop, drives the roads of outback Australia in an unending search for gasoline, the decaying world's most prized commodity, cruising the barren dystopian outback along highways crawling with bandits. He joins forces with scraggly nuclear holocaust survivors to defend a fuel-depot encampment and oil refinery under siege from the bizarre warriors commanded by Lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), a ferocious marauding horde that plunders the land for gasoline and never takes prisoners when they can pulverize them instead, leading to a wild chase involving a massive speeding oil tanker.