Ever popular B-grade trucker movie starring square jawed
Jan-Michael Vincent as a returned Vietnam veteran who comes home to
Tuscon, Arizona to take over his fathers trucking business and
marry his teenage sweetheart. However, the well meaning Carrol Jo
Hummer (Vincent) soon finds to his dismay that wholesale corruption
has permeated the trucking game, and he is forced to either haul
illegal loads of cigarettes and slot machines, or he doesn't work
at all.
Directed by Jonathon Kaplan ( who later directed many
episodes of the hit medico TV series "ER" ), the movie ticks along
at a brisk pace and for a modest production, it hits all the right
notes. Waif like Kay Lenz is believable as Carrol Jo Hummer's
equally strong headed wife, Jerri, and serial cowboy star Slim
Pickens ( in obligatory ten gallon hat, bolo ties and embroided
suits ) is a hoot as friendly, but weak willed trucking depot boss,
Duane Haller. A young Martin Kove is excellent as the taciturn
bully, Klem ( breaking Carrol Jo's ribs with a tyre iron ), and
another Western genre regular, L.Q. Jones, is equally impressive as
the leering Buck Wessell. Plus, keep an eye out for wonderful
character actor Dick Miller playing a fellow trucker named R.
"Birdie" Corman. ( A film about independant truckers with a sly
reference to Hollywood's maverick independant film producer !
)
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Cover Artwork but DVD does come in a protective sleeve.
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