Convoy (30th Anniversary Edition)
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Actor: Ali MacGraw, Brian Davies, Ernest Borgnine, Kris Kristofferson, Seymour CasselBrand: ST Clair ENT GRP INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: CF00020
Studio: Cheezy Flicks Ent
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- Citizen Band radio takes to the freeways for fast-lane thrills and fly-over spills. Trucker "Rubber Duck" (Kris Kristofferson) signals the big 10-4 when he and his unsuspecting ridealong (Ali MacGraw) are chased through three states by a corrupt traffic cop named "Dirty Lyle" (Ernest Borgnine). Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR Age: 827421000200 UPC:&n
DVD Reviews of Convoy (30th Anniversary Edition)
DVD Review: What a party it must have been...
Summary: 4 Stars
"Convoy," the 1978 action trucker flick, is one of those movies you like but are afraid to admit to. It's the kind of tape you hide in the closet when friends are over. I first saw this crash epic at the theater as a kid and sat through it a second time because I liked it so much. Time has only slightly worn down my admiration, but in terms of the trucker genre, it's still the best.
Ah, the 1970s, those days of CB handles, Smokey and the Bandit - Special Edition, White Line Fever and Breaker, Breaker. Can you believe we flocked to the theater in droves to see these films? "Convoy" came out at the tail end of this pedal-to-the-metal hoopla, about the time the song "Movin' On" was included on the B-side of all of those K-tel LPs. The film's director was the one and only Sam Peckinpah, now closing in on the end of a turbulent career. He was suffering from addictions and barely functioning as a professional. Yet even through the haze of alcohol and The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) dreams, shreds of his wonderful talent can be seen. It's ironic that a film considered the worst of his career is the best of a genre (fans of Jonathan Demme's fine Citizens Band may disagree).
"Convoy" is a muscle epic, with a genuine attempt at portraying the gritty lifestyle of truckers. I like Kris Kristofferson in the lead role, a brooding presence who makes a fine hero. I have always had problems with trucker films because the actors never really seemed appropriate for their roles (with the exception of Jerry Reed, of course). Kris is just right, exuding a sort of blue collar charisma that fits the role like faded jeans and a dirty red bandanna. The supporting cast is unusually excellent, including Ernest Borgnine in fine villainous form, Burt Young, Franklyn Ajaye and Madge Sinclair as salt-of-the-earth truckers, and even a distracted Ali MacGraw jogging around in bell bottoms and mini-fro.
The movie, based on the kitschy hit song by C.W. McCall C.W. McCall - Greatest Hits, is about a trucker who runs afoul of a surly cop and then forms a convoy of trucks to escape corruption, jail, whatever. There's a few subplots, including a governor who wishes to tout trucker rights, a jailbreak somewhere in Texas and eventually a standoff with the National Guard on the Mexican border. It all sounds like a Marty Robbins' song.
The cinematography by Harry Stradling Jr. is extraordinary, taking full advantage of the on-location vistas of New Mexico and Arizona. There's also a barroom fight and a car crash that must rank as the finest ever put on film. And you even have salty lines of dialog straight from the cynical pen of Peckinpah - "Mann Act's for 18 year olds, not someone who's seen the better side of thirty!" Or my favorite, when Kristofferson is asked what's the purpose of a convoy, "Purpose of a convoy is to keep movin'."
Poor Sam, in the throes of alcoholism, struggled mightily during the making of this movie, and it still performed well at the box office. Never-the-less, his career was in ruins after "Convoy." He would make one more film before riding off into the western sunset. Not many people involved with "Convoy" are fond of it due to the problems during production. But what a party it must have been.
If you squint your eyes just right and laugh at its absurdity, the wind-blown pages of this mediocre screenplay possess poetry of haunted men chasing ghosts down highways of the American southwest. "Convoy" is an example of A-list talent tackling C-list material, the end result being a unique film that raises the level of a crude genre.
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