Its Fun Buddy Boy I Sleep in It Three Nights a Week Nah Ill Go Watch Convoy Again Instead Movie
Worse management than expected
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CONVOY is a middling truck chase picture show from director Sam Peckinpah, who by all accounts was off his head on drugs for much of the filming. Information technology's no surprise that the resultant film feels cheap and choppy, with a plot that seems cobbled together from various unrelated strands and a distinct lack of excitement despite the proliferation of stunts and high-octane activity. Kris Kristofferson is the unremarkable lead, failing to ignite a romance with the unremarkable Ali McGraw, and seconding meliorate actors like Burt Immature to support. Ernest Borgnine is the all-time thing almost the film equally the antagonist sheriff villain. The stunts are cool, only the running time is besides long and outside of the activeness it stalls. It doesn't help that the picture show just isn't very well directed either; for example, the repeated use of slow motion in the bar-room ball just feels ridiculous.
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Not a Classic but Mildly Entertaining
Convoy (1978)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Information technology's not likewise uncommon to encounter a rip-off of a hit movement picture, in this instance SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, merely information technology is weird to see one coming from director Sam Peckinpah. It'south fair to say that the director's career wasn't in the highest of spots but he adds a certain flair to the textile that might non accept been there in a bottom manager's easily. In the film Kris Kristofferson plays a trucker known as Condom Duck who leads a convoy after a worthless sheriff (Ernest Borgnine) assaults a driver. The mile long convoy soon gets the attention of the federal government and the media and it's up to the Duck to try and effigy the best way out for everyone. If you're expecting to see something like THE WILD BUNCH or STRAW DOGS and so it's best you lot scout one of those ii films because the greatness Peckinpah is known for isn't going to be spotted hither but at the same time there'south no question that there's some mild entertainment to be had hither. It's in question how much of this Peckinpah actually directed since his drug and alcohol abuse was pretty severe at the time simply there are nevertheless some noticeable trademarks including the classic ho-hum motility sequences. In that location'due south no question that this thing was made to cash in on the SMOKEY AND THE Bandit craze only this picture never reaches the level of that one for a couple of reasons. For starters, there's non nigh equally much fun going on here and this is really as well bad. I call up had there been some more charm and grace that the picture would have been more entertaining. I besides think having so many people involved in the "chase" also made for way too many logical issues including why anyone would let something this big happen over something rather minor. With that said, there's however some fun to exist had and especially with the performances by both Kristofferson and Borgnine who appear to be having fun. Both of them fit their roles very well but the aforementioned tin't exist said for Ali McGraw and Burt Immature since both of them are wasted. At that place'due south some great cinematography to be had here, some nice music and the scenes of the long convoy are certainly impressive. CONVOY is far from a archetype or even a adept film but it's mildly entertaining for those who only want to kick back for some amusement.
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some vehicular destruction
On a remote stretch of highway, truck driver Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald (Kris Kristofferson) encounters hot lady Melissa (Ali MacGraw). Later, he and other truckers get shaken downwards by corrupted Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace (Ernest Borgnine). Melissa had to sell everything including her automobile and hitches a ride with the Duck. Cottonmouth start harassing the truckers which leads to all-out fight. The Duck leads a truck convoy for the state border to escape the long artillery of the constabulary.
The question for this movie is whether legendary managing director Sam Peckinpah tin accept the inspiration from a novelty hit song and turn information technology into something bang-up. The answer seems to exist no. Here's the bargain. I'm a sucker from mass vehicular destruction and awesome stunt piece of work. This movie certainly destroys quite a few vehicles but I'm not awed by it. There is 1 expert truck crash early on but it's shot from too far abroad. There is another big truck devastation during the climax. Again, it's pulling its punch. The trailer is plain stationary when they blow it up. I have to presume that they didn't want to damage the bridge. In which case, I would suggest doing it on the road. That scene needs the truck to be speeding and crashing while exploding. It needs the kinetic energy. My favorite vehicle scene is probably getting crushed between two trucks. Information technology may non exist bang-up stunt work but I love the fun concept.
Kristofferson should work not bad with this character. It'southward a cowboy flick and he would be better as a lone cowboy. Ali MacGraw has the brusque perm and information technology's weird looking. She has next to no chemical science with Kristofferson. I call up that there is a way to make this work better. This may be a good premise for some fun mindless destruction. As information technology stands, it'south non that smart but nowhere near mindless enough to be that fun.
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Funny Silliness
The truck drivers Martin "Prophylactic Duck" Penwald (Kris Kristofferson), Bobby "Love Machine" "Pig Pen" (Burt Young) and Spider Mike (Franklyn Ajaye) are crossing the Arizona desert and they are lured by the corrupt Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) that takes money from them. The truckers stop at a truck cease where Condom Duck meets the lensman Melissa (Ali MacGraw) that asks for a ride to the drome. Before long the unscrupulous Sheriff Wallace comes to the restaurant and tells that he will abort Spider Mike who wants to go abode since his pregnant married woman is near the delivery. The truckers react under the leadership of Prophylactic Duck and they go out the place in a convoy. Before long others truckers join the convoy in a huge protestation.
"Convoy" is a funny silliness surprisingly directed past Sam Peckinpah. The plot is messy and the leader Rubber Duck does not have an objective for his motility. Information technology could be a protest against the abuse from the officers, but the story is shallow. Ernest Borgnine "steals" the moving picture and Kris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw practice non accept whatever chemistry. My vote is five.
Title (Brazil): "Comboio" ("Convoy")
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Non top Peckinpah, simply withal a very enjoyable film
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Rough'due north'tumble independent truck commuter Rubber Duck (Kris Kristofferson in sturdy macho form) encourages his swain oppressed gear-jammers to make a stand confronting no-count corrupt Sheriff Lyle Wallace (robustly played with lip-smacking wicked ataraxy by Ernest Borgnine) and the whole kleptomaniacal organisation that he represents.
Director Sam Peckinpah maintains an affable lighthearted tone throughout (this is probably the lonely Peckinpah pic in which nobody gets killed), stages the activeness scenes with gusto (a hilarious slapstick bar fight and a climax that copies "The Wild Bunch" charge per unit as the definite rousing highlights), and explores his trademark themes of loyalty, betrayal, integrity, nonconformity, and corruption in a rather messy, but overall hugely entertaining mode. Bill W. Norton'southward script might non exist that subtle or circuitous, merely however possesses an amusing streak of blithely anarchic humor likewise every bit a strong subtext concerning rugged individuality versus the dirty and repressive status quo.
Prophylactic Duck'due south fellow Diesel demons are a colorful and engaging bunch: Burt Young every bit scruffy wannabe ladies' man Pigpen, Franklyn Ajaye as the easygoing Spider Mike, Madge Sinclair equally the sassy Widow Woman, Bill Foster as the grizzled Former Iguana, and Jackson D. Kane as the rowdy Big Nasty. Cassie Yates adds plenty of spark as sad-eyed truck stop waitress Violet, Seymour Cassel does well as the opportunistic Governor Jerry Haskins, and Brian Davies amuses as nerdy press representative Chuck Arnoldi. Ali MacGraw sports a ghastly poodle hairdo and a deep tan in a thankless cipher office. Harry Stadling Jr.'s well-baked widescreen cinematography photographs the trucks in a striking way that makes them come up beyond like powerful majestic beasts. The spirited score past Fleck Davis hits the stirring spot. Best of all, the fierce esprit the truckers have for each other gives this movie a winning surplus of genuine heart and soul. An immensely fun moving-picture show.
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Awesome
Truckers class a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker'southward vendetta with an abusive sheriff (Ernest Borgnine and his amazing facial hair)... Based on the country song of same title by C. W. McCall.
While the film volition patently be compared to "Smokey and the Bandit" (both featuring semi trailers being hounded by a sheriff), allow it be known that they are not at odds and really complement each other well (a proficient double feature, possibly).
Is Kris Kristopherson the same as Burt Reynolds? No. Is Ernest Borgnine the same as Jackie Gleason? Of course not. Then it is sort of like the aforementioned story told in ii dissimilar worlds. This i is a flake lighter on the one-act and much lighter on the romance.
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Entertaining Peckinpah movie about some protesting truckers led by an contained rebel drive through Southwest
A insubordinate trucker (Kris Kristofferson) leads protesting his colleagues on a trek throughout Southwest until Mexico .Other truckers join their convoy as a show of back up against brutality and other complaints . Sheriff Wallace (Ernest Borgnine)rallies other law enforcement officers throughout the southwest, they who soon aware that stopping Duck, the face of the now highly public standoff, is not as easy equally shooting him and the truck due to his highly explosive cargo . Truckers (Burt Immature , Magde Sinclair every bit Widow woman, amid others) on a tri-state protest over police force brutality ,course a mile long "convoy" in support of Duck'southward vengeance with the abusive sheriff . Based on the state song , a real hit , of aforementioned title by C.W. McCall.
An enjoyable picture , ¨ Peckinpah's Convoy ¨results to be an elegiac perspective at the world of the truckers . Taut excitement throughout, beautifully photographed and with spectacular trucks scenes and some images filmed in slow moving. An uneven and airheaded screenplay by Nib L Norton , subsequently turned to mediocre director . Vibrant and brilliant all star cast with acceptable performances from Burt Young , Seymour Cassel , Cassie Yates , among others. Kris Kristofferson turns in a squeamish interim as a drifting contained trucker nicknamed ¨Duck¨ who is searching liberty in a changing earth , he and Ali MacGraw strike real sparks. Ernest Borgnine is particularly fine as the veteran patrolman .Peckinpah's irksome-movement camera , his usual trademark,is put to particularly nice utilization shooting the balletic movement of fights , at one time more than splendidly and awe-inspiring than whatever gun battle. Furthermore, it contains a state music emotive score by Bit Davis . Glimmer and colorful cinematography by Harry Stradling Jr ,son of another great cameraman Harry Stradling Sr . Splendidly filmed in Albuquerque,Cerrillos, New United mexican states,Republic of cuba, New Mexico,Needles, California ,New United mexican states State Fair Grounds ,Central & Louisanna Avenues, Albuquerque,White Sands National Monument, and Alamogordo, New United mexican states. An amusing country-trucker-Western with passable interpretations and exciting trucks footage including some boring-moving images and a much moving , professionally made by the famous director Sam Peckinpah . Sam was a real creator and writer of masterpieces as ¨Cross of Iron¨,¨The ballad of Cable Hogue¨, ¨Wild bunch¨ , ¨Major Dundee¨ . ¨Convoy¨ though junior pic is lovely realized by Sam Peckinpah in his punchy directorial style .
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A slice of the 70's
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Style back in 1974, William Dale Fries Jr. was working as a creative director for Bozell & Jacobs, an Omaha, Nebraska-based advertising bureau. He created a Clio Honour-winning (the Clios are the Oscars of the ad industry, but perhaps AVN awards would be more appropriate) entrada for Old Home Staff of life that featured a truck commuter named C.West. McCall, which led to a serial of songs called "Onetime Abode Filler-Up an' Keep on a-Truckin' Café", "Wolf Creek Pass" and "Black Acquit Route."
Chips wrote the lyrics and sang those songs, while Chip Davis - who would go to dominate your parents' holidays with Mannheim Steamroller - wrote the music.
Their vocal "Convoy," though became a monster. A true crossover, it became the number-one song on both the state and pop charts in the United states, number 1 in Canada and number two in the UK. In fact, information technology's such a big song that it'southward listed 98th among Rolling Stone'southward 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Fourth dimension.
Please note: McCall is no i hit wonder. The same "Wolf Creek Laissez passer" hitting #40 in 1975. and 3 others songs - "Quondam Home Filler-Up an' Keep on a-Truckin' Buffet", "'Circular the World with the Rubber Duck" (the pirate-themed sequel to "Convoy" where the convoy leaves the United states and travels effectually the world, touring the Britain, France, West and Due east Germany, the USSR, Japan and even Australia, where the lyrics "Ah, ten-4, Pig Pen, what'due south your twenty? Australia? Mercy sakes, ain't nothin' downwardly there but Tasmanian devils and them cue-walla bears" are sung) and "There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Stone 'n' Roll)" - reached the Billboard Hot 100 when things similar that really mattered. And to top that off, a dozen McCall songs reached the Billboard'south Hot Land Singles nautical chart.
Permit me explicate one more time how large of a song this was: Sam Peckinpah - yep, the guy who directed The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and played a drunk in utterly bizarre Ovidio M. Assonitis motion-picture show The Company - made a moving-picture show well-nigh it. Even stranger, it was the most successful movie of his unabridged career.
Somewhere in the Arizona desert, truck driver Martin "Condom Duck" Penwald (Kris Kristofferson, pretty much the well-nigh attractive human being to always drive an 18 wheeler) is passed by Melissa (Ali McGraw, a woman able to interruption the hearts of both Robert Evans and Steve McQueen, but once you lot see her in this film you'll say, well, yes, I understand how they could throw circumspection to the wind and ruin their lives for Ali McGraw; PS - I learned pretty much 99% of my writing style from The Kid Stays In The Film), a lensman who gets him in problem with his curvation enemy Sheriff "Dingy Lyle" Wallace (Ernest Borgnine, The Devil's Rain!). It turns out that the Safety Duck has been pulling his rig into the driveway of Lyle'southward wife Violet (Cassie Yates, who we all know and love from Rolling Thunder) if you know what I'grand driving at.
Forth for the ride are beau truckers Pig Pen/Love Motorcar (Burt Young, who I will e'er love thanks to Amityville Two: The Possession) and Spider Mike (Franklyn Ajaye, The 'Burbs). After a big ball, Melissa ends up riding with Rubber Duck every bit Lyle gives chase.
A behemothic convoy - yes, there has to be one - saves our hero, brought together through the magic of the Citizen's Band radio. Certain, the National Baby-sit gets involved after the trucks trivial much ruin a Texas jail, but everything works out only fine.
During this period of Peckinpah's life, he was struggling with addictions to alcohol and drugs. Much of the moving-picture show is actually directed past role player and friend James Coburn, who was originally brought in to serve as second unit director. The movie was made at twice the upkeep, only still made tons of money at the box office.
However, rumors of increasingly subversive alcohol and cocaine abuse would ruin the director, leading to him making only ane moving-picture show, The Osterman Weekend, earlier his death. At ane bespeak, the cocktail of blow, quaaludes and vitamin shots that left Peckinpah believing that both Steve McQueen and the Executive Car Leasing Co. were conspiring to murder him.
Speaking of cocaine, Ali MacGraw, who was e'er uncomfortable in front end of the photographic camera, used powder and tequila to perform until she went likewise far 1 day on gear up, which led to her quitting for proficient.
The soundtrack to this pic is exactly what was playing on my hometown radio station, WFEM in New Castle, in 1978. "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers. "Don't Information technology Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gayle. "Okie From Muskogee" past Merle Haggard. All information technology's missing is the Steckman Memorial expiry written report at 7 AM, with the theme music of BJ Thomas singing "Morning Has Cleaved" followed by Paul Harvey and information technology's exactly the music of my young life. I also realize that that was a joke that literally no one other than me would get, merely when y'all ain your ain website, you can make obscure jokes almost the small power country music FM stations of your youth, likewise.
Somewhere out in that location, there'south a print of Peckinpah'due south ii and a half hour plus director'south cut before the studio took it from him. I would watch that right at present.
Yous know who else must have liked this picture show? Tarantino. Stuntman Mike'due south hood ornamentation in Death Proof is the Prophylactic Duck's.
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Peckinpah'south worst but the biggest gross
And also one of the biggest failure, despite this gross.... Peckinpah confessed that he was not that involved in this motion-picture show, typical of the late seventies, far less gloomy than the previous years of the decade. One-act action, with car chases in the line of some Burt Reynolds features- SMOKEY AND THE Brigand -kind. Information technology is pleasant to watch merely notwithstanding non a pure Peckinpah'south like flick at all. Simply meet instead Cross OF IRON, made one year earlier this one. You can live without it. Definitely.
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Come on back Condom Duck.
Truckers, led past Prophylactic Duck are fed upwards of existence harassed by vindictive traffic cop Lyle Wallace. After a fight breaks out between the truckers and the constabulary {started by Wallace's bullying tactics} the truckers abscond towards New United mexican states. What starts out as a few trucks turns into a giant convoy and presently the chase becomes a media event and a political tool for votes.
Based on the state vocal of same title by C.Westward. McCall, and directed by Sam Peckinpah, Convoy became, surprisingly to most in the industry, a hugely pop picture. Containing no plot of whatsoever substance, it does yet take an enormous sense of fun and features some squeamish Peckinpah flourishes. Huge trucks fierce beyond the landscape surprisingly makes for easy on the eye cinema, dust tracks framed in poetic fashion, boring move auto crashes and, erm, chickens falling from a coop, in fact lots of crash bang and wallop to entertain. Exterior of that, what heart there is in the piece is to be found in the gratuitous spirited nature of our truckers, especially Prophylactic Duck who becomes something of a hero to anyone who uses the road. Kris Kristofferson plays Safe Duck and information technology'south a slap-up fleck of casting, Ernest Borgnine suitably steps into Sheriff Wallace's big trousers and Burt Immature is dead on entertaining equally Pig Pen. Sadly this is yet another film that proves Ali MacGraw just couldn't act, tho in her defense force here the character Melissa, is poor and totally pointless.
Convoy is the sort of pic that i personally sympathize if folk hate it and think it has no merits whatsoever, simply much like Smokey And The Bandit from the previous year, vehicles going fast and creating mayhem makes for a whole lot of fun to exist taken with a pinch of cheek. vii/x
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Ball tearer
Best movie ever. Nothin only automobile chases fighting and lots of trucks crashing into stuff
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Not Peckinpah At His Best Just Fun
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No doubtfulness about it, Sam Peckinpah was a gifted director, and he made several movies that bore his genius. American film wouldn't exist the same were there no "Wild Bunch," "Harbinger Dogs," "Cantankerous of Iron," "Ride the Loftier Land," "The Getaway," "Killer Elite," "Bring Me The Caput of Alfredo Garcia," and "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid." Equally his life ran downwards, so did the quality of Peckinpah'southward films. "Convoy" exemplifies this problem. Made in 1978 on the ground of a hit county music single past C.W. McCall, aka Bill Fries, "Convoy" qualifies as a non-cease road farce in the tradition of Hal Needham'south "Smoky and the Bandit." Whereas Burt Reynolds and Needham produced what essentially amounted to a good ole boy road flick with comedy galore, Peckinpah's "Convoy" doesn't share the light-hearted spirit. Scenarist Bill Norton draws on the vocal for inspiration, but reportedly Fries reconfigured the vocal to adapt the whims of the moving picture. A study in rebellion, "Convoy" chronicles the trials and tribulations of the Prophylactic Duck (Kris Kristofferson of "Payback") who finds himself caught up in a pseudo political movement betwixt truckers and constabulary enforcement that turns into a media farce before it grinds to a halt atop a bridge over a muddied river. Unlike "Smokey and the Bandit," "Convoy" plays it straighter and its characters take a nasty side that generates the whole subplot about African-American trucker Spider Mike (Franklyn Ajaye) is beaten up and thrown into jail when he leaves the convoy to run into his significant wife who is nigh to pop. Slimy, low-downwards Sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernst Borgnine of "The Wild Agglomeration") and good guy, activist Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald accept a history that would have been interesting to know more than virtually. Suffice to say, they are each other's enemy, at least until the ending. Everything gets off onto the incorrect foot when 'Safety Duck' is cruising down the highway in his xviii-wheeler and he encounters sexy, brunette Melissa in her convertible sports car and the ii toy with each other until they find an Arizona Highway Trooper that they forcefulness off the road. The rest is history as Melissa hangs out and rides with the 'Condom Duck' until he sends her packing before he streaks across a bridge and runs into Lyle on a machine gun. Peckinpah and "Little Big Homo" lenser Harry Stradling Jr., have created a cute looking movie with breathtaking terrain and splendid stunts. At its all-time, "Convoy" represents a drove of dramatic scenes culled from Peckinpah'due south ain classics. The main trouble is the lack of characterization and the reason backside all the strange relationships that occur in the film. Yet, Peckinpah aficionados will appreciate all the references to previous Peckinpah films, and so that "Convoy" is a better-than-boilerplate route trip that could accept been better. The stunt driving is elevation-notch, especially the scene when Lyle smashes a machine through a billboard with 'Take a Friend to Church building' on it. The opening credit sequence with the snowy white deserts and the heat waves wrinkling on the horizon are cool to look at.
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What was Sam Peckinpah thinking?
Three truckers are setting off beyond country when they are harassed by a local Sheriff. The Sheriff is happy to utilise his power to extort money from anyone who he runs into, and he has a particular dislike for truckers. He and 1 of the truckers, "Rubber Duck", take a long-standing feud. This boils over when the truckers refuse to requite in to one of his extortion attempts and get into a fight with the Sheriff and the local constabulary. This results in a cross-state, even inter- state chase, and grows in magnitude every bit more and more trucks join the rebels, forming a convoy.
Pretty weak movie. Mostly just one long car/truck chase scene, with footling escapades along the way. Had some potential to brand a statement about liberty and taking a stand confronting fascism (perchance a Vanishing Point with trucks) only inappreciably touches either subject. Instead it's 1 of those mindless elongated cantankerous country machine chase movies.
Virtually perplexing of all, this is directed by Sam Peckinpah, the man who gave us The Wild Bunch, Cross of Iron, Straw Dogs and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. His movies ordinarily have solid plots, expert themes and are quite gritty and tearing. This has none of those traits. Why he chose to straight this, I don't know. He must accept needed the money.
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Truckin'
Honestly, what can exist said about a movie entirely based on a country song? This is the get-go motion picture by the belatedly, great Sam Peckinpah I've seen, and I must say, despite this evidently being him at his worst, I'm intrigued plenty to watch more of his works. I judge that's solid proof that he knew what he was doing... even while making this. The film is basically a large group of truckers forming a convoy, in support to one of them who is to be arrested. They bulldoze around in a long line of trucks, in said support. Odd mode to show information technology, in my personal opinion, merely to each his ain. The photographic camera caresses the trucks, in many shots, much like it does in Woo'south picture show with the guns. Despite my limited noesis of the culture of trucking and my neutral stance on fast cars(I rarely enjoy car-chases... The Blues Brothers is the exception that confirms the rule), I enjoyed parts of this movie. There'due south a bar-fight virtually the showtime with some ho-hum-motility shots oddly blended in with the real-time footage. I don't know if this is typical to Peckinpah's style. This is largely a guy'southward film. There'south a photographic camera angle focusing on the female lead's crotch within the commencement few minutes. The plot is driven by trucks, and pretty much everyone seen driving one of said trucks is what is commonly referred to as a "human being's man", or one who's "macho". The moving picture is nicely shot, some very good cinematography. The plot is, to my understanding, basically the lyrics of the country song of the same name written into a screenplay, with few, if whatever, alterations. That makes information technology quite predictable, only it's even so fairly enjoyable. The management is practiced. The acting is somewhat dim, though MacGraw and Kristofferson manage to hold their ain. The pacing seemed pretty bad, but I'm not into this kind of film, so that may be at fault. I recommend this to fans of Peckinpah, Kristofferson and possibly MacGraw. five/10
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A Run-of-the-Manufactory "Trucker Movie"
This movie begins with three truckers driving nether the handles of "the Rubber Duck" (Kris Kristofferson), "Pig Pen" (Burt Young) and "Spider Mike" (Franklin Ajaye) minding their own concern and cruising downwardly the highway. Suddenly, from out of nowhere they get a message that the highway is totally clear and advising them to speed up. Naturally, they eagerly follow this advice only to find out that the person on the other end of the CB radio is actually an Arizona sheriff named "Lyle Wallace" (Ernest Borgnine) and he has tricked them into violating the speed limit. Not only that, but he then proceeds to pocket their coin in exchange for letting them continue their way. Needless to say, this doesn't make them very happy and when ane of the Sheriff'due south deputies tries to harass Spider Mike at a nearby truck stop things quickly go due south from in that location. Now rather than reveal whatsoever more I will only say that this pic is based on a vocal that came out a twelvemonth or two before and helped to farther a new American fad involving CB radios and films based on highway truck drivers. Although these films seemed quite new and heady at the time, the luster has essentially vanished from about of these movies and this particular picture is no exception as it now seems rather wearisome and outdated. Slightly below average.
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Breaker breaker, whiskey, copy.....
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a group of struggling truckers run into a situation which ignites their indignation. They adapt to course a truck convoy under the leadership of the man whose CB nickname is "Rubber Duck".
He is the almost aggrieved of the bunch, having been harassed beyond the signal of endurance by Lyle Wallace, a blackmailing traffic cop who pursues him frantically through several states later he fails to submit to the phony speed trap he had ready.
As news of the truck convoy spreads, unexpected allies join the line, and the now-gigantic illegal protestation becomes the subject area of national news reports.....
If you ever yearned for a film featuring Kristofferson driving for almost the entire pic with his shirt off, whilst the narrative is sung on the soundtrack, then this is the movie for you.
It'due south basically one long hunt picture, featuring people with one-act nicknames, and if yous were a fan of movies such equally The Cannonball Run, or Smokey and The Bandit, or any moving-picture show featuring Eastwood and Clyde, then this sort of goes into that short lived sub genre.
Merely subsequently all these years, it hasn't held upward well, and the pic has underlying race issues throughout. the merely thing that is missing from Borgnine is a white hat, because there is simply one fundamental reason he is chasing Rubber Duck, and that is because he's trying to assistance someone forth the fashion.
But the soundtrack is a expert laugh, and information technology features some really adept stunts, and one of the funniest bar fights e'er seen, but all in all is simply about Kris driving a truck with his shirt off.
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Disappointing because Peckinpah directed it
On the i hand, this film is actually based on a song by someone chosen C.W. McCall; only on the other, it's directed by Sam Peckinpah - the cracking director behind masterpieces such as Straw Dogs and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia; so it was l/50 as to whether or not it was going to be good. Unfortunately, the motion picture really isn't much good; the characters are all pretty boring and I couldn't intendance less for their plight, which is what really brings the flick crashing downwardly. The film focuses on a bunch of truckers who decide to form a convoy as a protest against all the stuff they don't similar. Information technology'southward a rather thin plot line and the pic doesn't accept much to bulk it out with. The motion-picture show does have a squeamish gritty style at least and it's articulate that Convoy is a seventies movie. This mode is matched nicely by the bandage; headed past the rugged Kris Kristofferson and fleshed out by the likes of Ernest Borgnine and Burt Young. There'southward a fair bit of action including truck chases and bar fights, but there's picayune to hold the film together and non enough entertainment to make up for information technology. Of class, the fact that I'm not mostly a big fan of road movies means this moving picture had a smaller gamble of succeeding anyway; but it's clear to encounter that Convoy is a below boilerplate film and one that I wouldn't recommend tracking down.
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cult classic
Grown up every bit a child cease seventies early eighties I never forgot this film up to it'south new unrated and remastered release on Blu ray, time to selection it up and watch it allover again.
The story is rather simple, when a trucker , Rubber Duck (Kris Kristofferson) comes across Sheriff Lyle 'Cottonmouth' Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) trouble starts between the 2 of them. From there on all truckers around Arizona unite with Condom Duck to make a convoy against the smokeys. To be honest, the story practise remind yous a fleck of a good old western and in fact it does. But what makes this pic outstanding is the fact that no effects were used, it were all on-camera stunts and they do look amazing. Just meet one musculus car crash into the air. See how trucks fall over or how the crush a police car. Or what about the ending. It'southward also very articulate that Sam Peckinpah was the managing director in one of his concluding flicks, but run into the apply of slo-mo and the panoramic shots.
Even equally it is fantabulous it practise has a few problems, i'due south rather slow sometimes but the action all over the flick makes it up. On the other hand made in the seventies racism was still going on and was a'normal' matter especially in the S. And we practice see some racial aspects.
Made later on some other excellent flick, Smokey And The Brigand (1977) this is a perfect instance of how people looked and laughed towards the law. Worth picking up and scout it in total glory.
Gore 0/v Nudity 0/five Effects iv/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/five
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One long-ass haul
"Wait, Sam Peckinpah?!"
- My reaction after reading the credits for "Convoy" (found the soundtrack in a record store a few weeks back). Suddenly, this peripheral film had earned some priority.
And it's kinda disappointing, which is nowhere more axiomatic than in the stunts; they're slowed downwardly and fatigued out. Nil takes the rollicking out of a proficient ol'boy flick like slo-mo fight scenes. I guess this is plumbing equipment for a two-hr movie adapted from a pop vocal. Sadly, this doesn't hold a candle to other luminary '70s chase movies.
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Good Buddies and Smoky Bears
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The plot of 'Convoy' is a simple one. Three long-distance truckers, known by their C.B radio handles Rubber Duck, Pig Pen and Spider Mike, experience that they are beingness unfairly picked on by a decadent and officious police. After a dial-upwardly in a roadside diner in Arizona with Sheriff Lyle Wallace, a particularly obnoxious officer, they ready off in their trucks across the deserts of the American Southwest, together with Melissa, a middle-grade girl making her way to Texas. News of their exploits spreads via the C.B. Radio system, and they are joined by other truckers who form a convoy of vehicles a mile long. The convoy'southward cross-country drive comes to be seen as a form of protest against authority- in particular against the law's treatment of truckers and the unpopular 55 mph speed limit, simply also more than generally against corruption, corruption of power, brutality and racism. Although Sam Peckinpah is best-known today as the director of trigger-happy blood-soaked films such equally 'Straw Dogs' or 'The Wild Bunch', 'Convoy' is, for the nigh part, comic and light in tone. There is extensive devastation of holding, only little in the way of mortality apart from small injuries. The tone of the film darkens towards the end, but even here there is an ironical twist.
Reading the other comments on this board, I was struck by the fact that the bang-up majority were from people living in Europe. This is interesting, considering route movies of this type are something quintessentially American, where the emptiness and openness of America is used every bit a symbol of the freedom to which the characters aspire. Most European countries do not take the vast distances and sparsely populated open spaces needed for movies similar this; Russia may be an exception, just the Soviet political system was never conducive to films celebrating individual freedom. The popularity of 'Convoy' on this side of the Atlantic may be precisely because these open spaces help to requite an idealised movie of the American lifestyle to Europeans living on a more claustrophobic continent. 'Convoy' did for heavy goods vehicles what films similar 'Easy Rider' and 'The Wild One' did for motor bikes; together with the C.B. subculture which it celebrates, information technology helped to make trucking, temporarily at least, seem like a much more than glamorous occupation than information technology had washed previously. Information technology was noticeable that in the seventies people in Great britain began to utilize the Americanism 'truckers' rather than more than traditional British term 'lorry drivers'.
The C.B. subculture and the eccentric slang associated with it have at present passed into history, killed off past the ascent of the mobile telephone, and this tin brand the dialogue in the film seem quaint when it is not incomprehensible. (A 'good buddy' is clearly a fellow-trucker and a 'smoky bear' a police force officer, but some of the other terms used seem opaque). Despite this, the movie tin still be watched with pleasure even today; information technology is more than than just a nostalgic seventies menstruation piece. There are ii main reasons for this. The first lies with Peckinpah's direction and with the striking photography of the desert landscapes of the Southwest. The hunt sequences in which the truckers are trying to escape from the law are not just heady, just also beautiful; at times they accept an almost balletic quality. (The acting, on the other hand, is not specially memorable, although Kris Kristofferson makes a likable Prophylactic Duck and Ernest Borgnine, every bit the decadent Sheriff, a splendidly exaggerated villain).
The second main reason why the motion picture still has resonance today is its political subtext. By that I do not mean that it has a coherent ideological message; the truckers' ideology is probably all-time summed up by the famous exchange from another road picture show, 'The Wild I' when Marlon Brando, asked 'What are you rebelling confronting?', replies 'What have you got?' 'Convoy' will offend the traditional Right, who will detect it too anti-authoritarian, and probably also the traditional organised Left, who will observe information technology too individualistic. Withal, the theme of the piffling man standing upwards against the corruption of say-so will strike a chord with many. 7/10
P.S. Possible goof. I am non an expert on the American organisation of police enforcement, but would an Arizona sheriff actually accept the authority to lodge the Texas National Baby-sit to open burn down?
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"Callin' all trucks, this here'southward the Duck, we about to become a-huntin' bear!"
C.West. McCall'southward 1975 striking vocal "Convoy" is 1 of the near unique and different songs to ever come out of the land genre. Its unique blend of citizens band radio (CB radio) dialog combined with a tricky, spoken-discussion story about a group of rebellious truckers that make up one's mind to disobey all route signs, law enforcement, and trucker policies to simply be i with the route, their trucks, and their individualism, which somewhen results in the creation of a trucking convoy makes for a song that does nothing but get ones energy flowing and their excitement flourishing. Throw in inanely catchy instrumentation, trucker lingo appropriately imitating life on the road, and McCall's fittingly deep vocals and you lot accept a vocal that just works on sight and creates a wonderful and original vibe.
Adapting McCall's novelty song into a film bearing the same name was a wise option because the vocal is then much a story and full of sometimes ambiguous lingo that showing how something like a trucker rebellion would play out if it were to happen only makes sense. The film follows McCall's hit nicely, equally it focuses on a deviant trucker nicknamed "Rubber Duck" (Kris Kristofferson), who bands together with his road-friends "Love Machine" (later nicknamed "Hog Pen," played by Burt Young), and "Spider Mike" (Franklyn Ajaye) to protest the corrupt ways of Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace (Ernest Borgnine), by driving their trucks at top speed to the country line of New Mexico and as far as they can possibly go. Likewise on board with "Safe Duck" as a passenger is Melissa (Ali MacGraw), who initially tempts him past driving without pants in a Jaguar convertible at height speed down the road. The gaggle of truckers eventually starting time a convoy, made upwards of truckers from all over the country, "long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus," amid many others who are riding in protest of constabulary corruption and the pursuit of individuality.
Sam Peckinpah directs Convoy with a necessary sense of fun, gusto, and articulate enjoyment, filming many shots of truckers and their drivers floor it downwardly interstates, weaving in and out of traffic, and even working to end law-enforcement past using two eighteen-wheelers to shell a police cruiser flying down the highway at summit speed. In addition, Peckinpah works to develop the relationship these truckers have with their roads, but also each other, even if their friends exist predominately as voices on the other cease of a scratchy CB radio, spouting slang and vague phrases at each other hoping to accomplish a goal only a select few volition understand. The individualism in the flick is near unmatchable, as we run into that "Prophylactic Duck," "Hog Pen," and "Spider Mike" have a genuine love for what they exercise and, as McCall stated in his song, "ain't zippo' gonna arrive their way." On top of that, the film is filled with talents that are fun to watch, specifically Kristofferson and Borgnine, ii instantly recognizable actors in roles they were built to play. Watching the film and seeing their human relationship develop over time is a real treat considering y'all can come across the way each of them respond to each others quips and acts of deviancy and disobedience. On pinnacle of that, the supporting bandage of Young and Ajaye are entertaining, particularly in the early scenes in the picture show, where the key focus is on their dialog with each other. Last, but certainly not least, is MacGraw, who does a beautiful job of holding her own, being the only female atomic number 82 in the entire motion picture.
Convoy too has the ability to surprise by becoming a surprisingly deeper story during the flick's last act, addressing bug of racism, opposition to individuality and rebellion, and corruption within a system with a sense of honesty and seriousness. For a film that bears such an asinine premise and a cheesy artful, information technology's easy to not expect this detail film to behave such a notion of competence in terms of illustrating a moral. Only that is but one of several ways Peckinpah's Convoy surprises equally information technology lives up to a terrific song and terrific thought in an entertaining manner.
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Burt Young, Franklin Ajaye, and Ernest Borgnine. Directed by: Sam Peckinpah.
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cheesy,mindless,forgettable entertainment
basing a movie on a country song might seem like a strange idea,only for only for what information technology is,it works.information technology's no masterpiece,and the acting won't win any awards,but there's plenty of action and the motion picture is never boring.it has its humorous moments and a few touching moments as well.but generally its about the action.if you're expecting logic,you lot won't always observe it in this movie.but if you merely want to escape for a little under two hours,this may be what y'all're looking for.it's pretty much forgettable,cheesy,mindless entertainment,only my roommate and i enjoyed ourselves.Ernest Borgnine was riot as a vengeful cop,and pretty much stole the prove in his scenes.for me, Convoy is a 6/10
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Their all following you lot! No they own't..I'yard simply in front of them.
A convoy of aroused and enraged truckers are rolling down the desert highways of Arizona New United mexican states and Texas led past Martin Penwald (Kris Kistofferson) using the CB-handle "Rubber Duck". The truckers had plenty of the corrupt highway cops who shake them down and threaten to impound their rigs. Leaving the truckers without whatsoever means of financial support. Also as the ridicules 55 MPH speed limit on the highways that cuts into their time and earnings and last merely non least the heaven-rocketing gas prices.
After the Safe Duck and ii of his trucker pals Honey Automobile & Spider Mike,Burt Young & Franklyn Ajaye, were entrapped by the nasty and vindictive local Sheriff Lyle Wallace, Earnest Borgnine,for illegally using the trucker CB-handle name Cottonmouth. Their shaken downwards past the "lawman" for $70.00 each in order to avoid having their trucks impounded and them existence thrown behind bars.
The iii later on Going to the local truck terminate to gloat the Rubber Ducks birthday and have a few drinks are again confronted by the constable. Sheriff Wallace, still not satisfied with pushing the truckers around, comes snooping around the area to make a few more bucks off the abused haulers. Wallace picks on poor Spider Mike accusing him of loitering and is about to throw him in jail. Spiker Mike pleads to the unfeeling Wallace that his wife is nigh to give birth and to please leave him alone which doesn't move the sheriff at all. But a straight right to his jaw, by Spider Mike, does make him move right on the butt of his pants. In a bar brawl with the truckers, who come up to the help of Spider Mike Dearest Machine and the Rubber Duck, Wallace and two of his deputies are knocked out common cold and handcuffed as the iii truckers together with the Rubber Duck'south new found clasp the plucky and outspoken Melissa (Ali MacGraw), a wedding lensman who'due south machine broke downwards, then accept off and go back on the route again with the entire Arizona Highway Patrol on their tail.
Chased by the crazy Sheriff Wallace, who commandeered a machine from a young couple smoking and shearing a articulation. the Condom Duck Beloved Machine & Spider Mike become the full back up from some very expected and unexpected persons that during the remainder of the picture has them on the front end pages of the news too as getting the ear of the local governors senators and even the President of the United States himself.
There'due south strength in numbers is the theme of "Convoy" with the Rubber Duck & friends making a individual affair into a public happening. This by cartoon attending to the plight of him and his swain truckers and how their curt-changed and sick-treated by everyone down the line, police politicians and big oil, equally they try to do their.
The giant convoy of truckers following the Condom Duck open the eyes of the nation and puts decadent low-lives similar Sheriff Wallace on the forepart pages. All that showed what these hard working and dedicated men, the truckers, have to put up with every twenty-four hours and dark that their on the road. In the finish they become the support and respect from the public, every bit well as the politicians, that they so richly deserve. When the clueless and almost brain-dead politicians come across the endless line of the trucker convoy lead by the Rubber Duck they not only stand up up and listen merely they deliver as well.
Ane of director Sam Peckinpah's nearly underrated films that, as far equally I could see, had no one killed in it. Fifty-fifty though the amount of violence and explosions were equaled to Peckinpah's famous blood-splattering 1969 classic "The Wild Bunch".
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"Purpose of the convoy is to go on moving"
A known film magazine here chosen The Getaway a campy classic because Steve McQueen kicks butt in style. Convoy can be campier nonetheless, Peckinpah near in self parody mode shoots a goofy scene of slow-mo fisticuffs in a diner and I guess for those who never especially cared about Peckinpah outside dusty violence Convoy's appeal will stop at lightheaded fun. It'due south more than to me, not only because fifty-fifty among shenanigans information technology lets me know it'southward a motion-picture show fabricated by 1 of my favorite directors, but also because Peckinpah tin be one of my favorite directors even when he makes a moving picture like Convoy. A convoy of truckers tears through empty stretches of desert route pursued by the constabulary, in the process running from the law becomes running towards it, to tear right through information technology. This is political, non thoughtfully so merely fiercely, similar a protest rally is not a forum for discussion but a forum for expression. Convoy doesn't sit downward to discuss acrimony and disgust with the establishment, it expresses them. Information technology creates an allegory and throws it at you and demands you pay attention. It doesn't care to humanize the opposition. In showing cops to be incompetent buffoons and politicians opportunist sc#grand, in turning Ernest Borgnine in the aforementioned cardboard decadent authority villain that he played for Robert Aldrich in his rail film Emperor of the North Pole a few years earlier, Convoy expresses public sentiment.
Kris Kristofferson is the embodiment here, he's the Kowalski of few words and pedal to the flooring, he's the guy who gets to say "p#ss on you and p#ss on your police" and clothing the cool shades every bit he's virtually to plunge his truck straight into a National Guard roadblock in a final upflare of furious vengeance. Before he can exist romanticized like that, he leads the convoy through vast empty expanses of desert, and when a journalist asks him en road what is the purpose of the convoy he gets the gamble to say that the purpose is to keep moving. Peckinpah aligns him with his nemesis, ii individuals relics an old world that is nearly to be brushed bated. I love that in Peckinpah, his greatly masculine (the exact opposite of something like Conan, which is superficially masculine) fatalist romance that speaks about the ends of things. I dearest how he edits violence and the sense that these few passing moments echo through eternity.
The movie ends in a complete cacophony of people yelling each to each, running subsequently one another, engines revving, dust blowing, a furious jam of sound and fury edited into something that booms with Borgnine's raucous laughter. Information technology'due south similar Peckinpah stormed the editing room in a drunken fit and plowed through the motion picture with a pair of scissors and a broken whiskey bottle. But a movie made by a drunken cocaine-fond Peckinpah is notwithstanding a movie made by one of the best directors ever to come up out of America and even here the human was doing some of the all-time movie theater of the entire decade.
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One of the best trucker movies!
But a year afterwards 'Smokey and the Bandit', the like themed 'Convoy' was released. If you enjoy truck movies, you surely will dearest 'Convoy'!
Kris Kristofferson stars as Safe Duck, a loner who gets involved in more he tin can handle through no fault of his ain, and becomes a reluctant hero. 'Convoy' delivers enough of activity, and there's too lots of sense of humor. I enjoyed Kristofferson every bit the protagonist, just as much equally I enjoyed Ernest Borgnine equally the adversary, Dirty Lyle. And the chemistry between Kristofferson and MacGraw was sweet and serene.
'Convoy' was fabricated in a time before CGI, where everything was done with applied effects. As a result, the action sequences and stunts are really awesome. This is Existent moving-picture show making. The cinematography was also very skilful.
The pacing is good, the story is skilful, and the picture offers an excellent blend of comedy, drama, activity and adventure. This is one of the best trucking movies e'er made, and darn entertaining at that!
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