Convoy (1978)

[lester1/2jr]

 











The aspect ratio for this version,  available from cheezyfliks,  is wrong making it even more ridiculous than it already is.  Why would you manufacture a dvd wrong?  How hard can it possilby be to find a decent print of a movie such as this? 


Anyway,  this is an entire movie based on the song "Convoy" by some guy.  This tune has a special place in my heart.  I attended a really cheap summer camp that was located in my elementary school.  i don't think we even paid for it, I just road my bike there and went.  the older kids who someone was paying to run it had a record player and played this song constantly. "Convooooooooy".  their "office" was the hallway in the middle of the school.  This was back before kids lives were planned from sunup to sundown for them.  So I was happy to finally see it despite the horrendous quality.   


                                "Camp Classic"  covers it pretty well.  tensions between ernest borgnines extortionist highway cop and kris kristofferson's character CB handle "Ruber Duck" reach a fever pitch after a fistfight.  just find teh song and listen to it, no need for me to recount the plot.  The message is great because it encourages lawlessness.  "the point of the convoy"  says rubber duck "is to to keep the convoy going".   at one point the convy theme is played as a waltz as the trucks drive through a dusty short cut to elude the police.  I recall thinking "wow this is a disaster here" and later thinking "enough with these f**king trucks" .  But the second half is more action and plot oriented and it  becomes awesome.  Ali Mcgraw is good as the hot girl whose simple ride turns into an international episode and rocky's brother in law from rocky is good as another trucker guy.  silly but awesome with cheer-able dialogue and again typical southern anarchist themes, though the cast seems more apt to attend a disco than a hoedown

[Raffine]

by some guy

That would be one-hit wonder ad agency exec (but not truck driver) C.W. McCall.

One of his other attempts at hit song was Comin' Back for More - a sweet ballad about infamous cannibal Alfred Packer.

[lester1/2jr]

CW MCall certainly had a unique and colorful approach to songwriting

[Flangepart]

by some guy

That would be one-hit wonder ad agency exec (but not truck driver) C.W. McCall.

One of his other attempts at hit song was Comin' Back for More - a sweet ballad about infamous cannibal Alfred Packer.

Which is always included on the Holloween show.
Hummm...Is it cannibalisim if your eat a clone of your self? Like if some clone troopers are stranded on this planet, ya see...

[The Burgomaster]

Ah, yes . . . CONVOY.  I was really excited when the DVD got released, but disappointed that Cheezyflix released it (I have 2 or 3 Cheezyflix DVDs and I hate the Cheezyflix logo they superimpose over the opening credits).  Anyway, I a big Sam Peckinpah fan but this is his most boring movie.  Even the truck destructo scenes are boring.  I think I posted some comments about it here right after I bought the DVD, but I'm too lazy to search for them.