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Convoy (1978) [REPOST]

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Date: 27 Nov 2013 19:15:38

Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff…Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair, Franklyn Ajaye, Brian Davies, Seymour Cassel, Cassie Yates, Walter Kelley, Jackson D. Kane, Billy Hughes, Whitey Hughes, Bill Coontz, Tommy J. Huff, Larry Spaulding, Randy Brady, Allen Keller, Jim Burk, Bob Orrison, Tommy Bush, William C. Jones Jr., Jorge Russek, Tom Runyon, Vera Zenovich, Patrice Martinez, Donnie Fritts, Bobbie Barnes, Turner Stephen Bruton, Sammy Lee Creason

The CB (citizen's band) radio fad had nearly run its course when this feel-good action film was made by director Sam Peckinpah. In the story, based on C.W. McCall's song "Convoy", a group of struggling truckers (who stay in touch by CB) run into a situation which ignites their indignation. They arrange to form a truck convoy under the leadership of the man whose CB nickname is "Rubber Duck" (Kris Kristofferson). He is the most aggrieved of the bunch, having been harassed beyond the point of endurance by Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) a blackmailing traffic cop who pursues him ever more frantically through several states after he fails to submit to the phony speed trap he had set up. As news of the truck convoy spreads, unexpected allies join the line, and the now-gigantic illegal protest becomes the subject of national news reports.

IMDb

While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike", are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade, the citizens' band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a black man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and "Widow Woman", go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support…

DVDTalk

In 1978, America was soaked to the gills in phony countrified corn. The Dukes of Hazzard peddled Daisy Maes in tight cutoff jeans going 'Oh!' when fast cars (minimum 2 per episode) vaulted hidden ramps and flipped in the air. Claude Akins was shoveling the regional dialect on prime time. Real rural Americans should have been insulted.

Somewhere in this cultural mess B.W.L. (Bill) Norton concocted a hi-concept story that made cash registers ring in Hollywood. A cannonball caravan of truckers, see, squawkin' on their CeeBees and sportin' with the waitresses in the backs of their cabs. Kris Kristofferson shows off his muscles. Ali MacGraw is in for the sleek crowd with her model's looks. What a great odd couple! Shove in redneck sheriffs, ineffectual authorities and a massive public groundswell of support for the anarchic anti-law truckers, and you've got a great Capra finish! All set to the hit radio song Convoy.

By this time Peckinpah was barely able to function on a movie set. Convoy had six first assistant directors and many more second assistants, among them trusted associates of Peckinpah covertly directing when he was too wiped out to know which end was up. James Coburn is on record as rushing to help an old buddy, then telling him off and going out to set up a shot on his own.

This is a second-unit movie anyway. A love of big rig tractor-trailer interstate trucks will an asset for watching this, because that's what we see for about 90 minutes of this marathon road picture: trucks cruising, roaring down dusty dirt roads, overturning, running roadblocks. Yerhoo, it don't get better than that, ma.

The technical work is actually quite fine. It really looks as if Kristofferson (a lo-o-o-ng way from his academic and folk-singing heights) is muscling those gearshifts, and good matching never lets us think that all the cab interiors were done separately. The moving camera is fluid and helicopter and slow-mo footage cuts together rather well.

The story is simply a crock that asks us to believe that asinine irresponsibility is a good response to frustration with the law. Rubber Duck and his pinhead convoy express America's growing discontent with the inconvenience of being governed in a way that only someone with 4 beers in him could appreciate. Audiences everywhere had responded to the somewhat irresponsible 'give 'em the finger' fantasies of the Smokey and the Bandit- type movies, and it has to be admitted that there's room for that kind of thing. But Convoy seems made by, about, and for the nabob country morons lampooned in John Landis' The Blues Brothers, the kind that throw beer bottles at on-stage performers.

The brawling confrontation (in pointless slow-mo, naturally) that starts the convoy is a thin pretext, and the attempt to make Rubber Duck's interstate pursuit into a pop crusade is a joke. Production-wise it's all there, but all that's expressed is the pigheaded resolve of our pouting American Hero to come out on top. Rubber Duck eventually sneaks out of the whole convoy anyway, a little too much like an aimless Billy the Kid deciding to make a right turn and head to Mexico. Even kids will realize that that's not going to get Rubber Duck anywere. Most viewers wonder what will happen to the goods (and livestock) being shipped in the big trucks! Civil revolt fantasies never worry about details.

Most of the cast are previous Peckinpah actors who rallied to help their director for 'one last go-round, doing it right.' They must have been surprised to be left to direct themselves. Kristofferson's character is a waste but his personal charisma is going full tilt and he comes out okay. Lean suntanned Ali MacGraw now can drive a Jaguar like a pro 1 but her every dialogue line sounds ridiculously false. The rest of the cast makes little impact; Borgnine's vicious Sheriff is a tired cliche with no resonance. It's a movie out of a cereal box.

By the time the film hit theaters it had gone wildly over budget, effectively throwing the brakes on Peckinpah's career. It did moderately well, but was the Gigli of its year, the kind of joke that people used as evidence to prove that Hollywood had its head up its exhaust manifold. The CB craze was already waning, and only a year later the tin-ear title song that inspired the movie was … a year-old tin-ear novelty song.

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