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Convoy

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Trucker Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald (Kris Kristofferson) and his buddies Pig Pen (Burt Young), Widow Woman (Madge Sinclair) and Spider Mike (Franklin Ajaye) use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
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Martha DuBose Sydney Morning Herald If one ignores the pompous script and its allegorical pretensions, Convoy is not bad entertainment. The stunt-work is excellent and the action sequences excitingly staged. Nov 21, 2023 Full Review Pauline Kael New Yorker It’s a happy-go-lucky ode to the truckers on the roads, a sunny, enjoyable picture. Sep 18, 2023 Full Review Kim Newman Empire Magazine A noisy but enjoyable destruction derby of a film. Rated: 3/5 May 12, 2017 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Convoy is Vanishing Point with trucks, a nihilistic journey into the world of American individualism with a jaunty soundtrack. It’s a bad film, but it’s also an addictively watchable one… Rated: 3/5 Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Armond White National Review It’s a feel-good movie about American camaraderie going up against injustice and abusive, overreacting tyranny. Feb 17, 2022 Full Review Bernard Drew Gannett News Service There is the ghost of something here and if the film had had the courage of its convictions, it might have been something else, but as it stands now, it is simply an action movie but a pretty fair one. Nov 1, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member As a film of the 70's (remember all those Villains v Cops trucks and car chase films and shows?) akin to Cannonball Run, Smokey and The Bandit, Movin' On, BJ and The Bear and so on - heck even Bond got in on the act - it's a pretty good film and a bit deeper than the rest. Racial prejudice, political agendas and so on were there although not explored too deeply after all it was more a light entertainment / comedy film. For anyone who's a fan of trucks, was a CB radio enthusiast or just enjoys a good old chase movie it has all you could want. It's very much a film of the 70's for people who were alive then but that's no bad thing - the stunts are all real and thankfully so are the people unlike the fake plastic heroes of films today. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/01/24 Full Review ROBS T I first saw this when it released at the cinema, It was an awesome film then and still is to this day, I don't expect the younger ones to think the same due to the times we now live in. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/30/24 Full Review Ravenswood R The script, story, and acting are very spotty and shaky. Almost completely inane and nonsensical. When some aspect begins to make a tiny bit of plausible sense, a couple minutes later something happens which plunges it back into total nonsense. The whole thing seems like the product of writers and a director who are all coming down from a long haul drug binge. The actors struggle, or simply do a poor job throughout. Some bizarre psychedelic scenes of ghostly trucks with weird music saved this from being 100% terrible, so it is only 90% terrible. Fun to watch visually at times, all other aspects are abysmally bad. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/31/24 Full Review hugh g great movie. it has a few dramatic moments but other than that it is packed with action. it has lots of explosions and high speed chases. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/20/23 Full Review xEDx D What makes all the critics from 2005 onwards, the right to say this a bad film, where it had already been out of 20 years, its a really good film showing what the truckers had to go through to get stuff sorted, especially with the police, where RD had been caught in a police entrapment from pretty much the start, that started the whole thing, didn't they see what the film was actually trying to say ? Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review S S '70s classic Kris Kristofferson enough said Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/19/22 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Trucker Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald (Kris Kristofferson) and his buddies Pig Pen (Burt Young), Widow Woman (Madge Sinclair) and Spider Mike (Franklin Ajaye) use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.
Director
Sam Peckinpah
Producer
Robert M. Sherman
Screenwriter
Bill Norton
Production Co
EMI Films Ltd.
Rating
PG
Genre
Action, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2016
Runtime
1h 50m
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