Death Journey is a 1976 action crime film written by Abel Joney and directed by Fred Williamson, who also stars as Jesse Crowder.

Jesse Crowder is hired to transport a witness from Los Angeles to New York but instead befriends him and helps him evade his foes.

Fred Williamson returned as Jesse Crowder in No Way Back.

[6] According to The Hammer: an American Hero by Harold D. Edmunds, Williamson actually knew a guy in high school called Jesse Crowder.

The case went to court and Williamson's lawyer placed some phone books on the table and asked him which Crowder he was.