Convoy (1978)


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.

Convoy (1978)

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Released Year: 1978
Runtime: 110 minutes
Genre: Action, Drama
Directors: Sam Peckinpah

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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.

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Reviews


70
Time Out - Unnamed
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
The Dissolve - Nathan Rabin
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 - Chuck Bowen
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
Chicago Reader - Dave Kehr
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 - Kim Newman
A noisy but enjoyable destruction derby of a film, sadly with none of the subtlety, invention or skill of Spielberg's Duel.

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