Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Seymour Cassel, Tommy Bush, Kris Kristofferson, Greg Van Dyke, Ernest Borgnine, Franklyn Ajaye, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair, Tommy J. Huff, Ali MacGraw, Cassie Yates, Bill Coontz, Patrice Martinez, Edward Blatchford, Jorge Russek, Tom Runyon, Brian Davies, Walter Kelley, Jackson D. Kane, Billy Hughes, Whitey Hughes, Larry Spaulding, Randy Brady, Allen Keller, Jim Burk, Bob Orrison, William C. Jones Jr., Vera Zenovich, Donnie Fritts, Charles Benton, George Coleman, Paula Baldwin, Herb Robins, Don Levy, Spec O'Donnell, James Edgcomb, Daniel D. Halleck, Stacy Newton, Sabra Wilson, John Bryson
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Reviews
70
The narrative goes a bit over the top in the second half, but it's after a large dose of the best kind of escapist good humour.
70
Convoy has one huge advantage over the song that inspired it: It’s one thing to hear about a mighty convoy, but it’s quite another to see it. There’s a certain tacky, truck-stop grandeur to witnessing so many huge vehicles traveling together like a pack of steel, gasoline-fueled animals.
63
Slant Magazine
At its best, the film finds Peckinpah moving into a new poetry of non-violence, of movement associated with explicit, actualized harmony, but the director doesn’t trust himself, mistaking change of form for impersonal commercial stewardship.
63
It looks like a potboiler: only a few of Peckinpah's themes are present, and they're mostly left undeveloped. But Peckinpah can still stage a fight scene better than anyone, and the film establishes its own crazy rhythm as it runs off wildly through most of the southwest.
60
Empire
A noisy but enjoyable destruction derby of a film, sadly with none of the subtlety, invention or skill of Spielberg's Duel.
