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Convoy (1978) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
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French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
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German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
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Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
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Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
111 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Sam Peckinpah

Written By:
Bill L. Norton
Bill Fries

Actors:
Kris Kristofferson ..... Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald
Ali MacGraw ..... Melissa
Ernest Borgnine ..... Sheriff Lyle 'Cottonmouth' Wallace
Burt Young ..... Bobby 'Love Machine' 'Pig Pen'
Madge Sinclair ..... Widow Woman
Franklyn Ajaye ..... Spider Mike
Brian Davies ..... Chuck Arnoldi
Seymour Cassel ..... Governer Jerry Haskins
Cassie Yates ..... Violet
Walter Kelley ..... Federal Agent Hamilton
Jackson D. Kane ..... Big Nas
Billy Hughes ..... Pack R
Whitey Hughes ..... White Rat
Bill Coontz ..... Old Igua
Tommy J. Huff ..... Lizard Tong

Synopsis:

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 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. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers throughout the southwest, they who soon learn that stopping Rubber Duck, the face of the now highly public standoff, is not as easy as shooting him and the truck due to his highly explosive cargo. As the standoff escalates, New Mexico Governor Jerry Haskins joins the fray, he who sees the strong public support for the truckers being something on which he can capitalize politically.

Sam Peckinpah's classic road-movie based around the hit song by C.W. McCall. Long-distance trucker Rubber Duck (Kris Kristofferson) is on the run from corrupt sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine). He makes a call on his CB radio asking for assistance from other truckers, many of whom have also fallen foul of Wallace in the past. What follows is a massive truckers' convoy, plenty of CB banter, and a whole lot of smashed-up police cars.

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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