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A mile-long convoy of protesting truckers are chased through three states by a corrupt speed-trap cop. And the green light is given via the CB airwaves for a convoy of moving violations in an all-action big-wheel adventure. Read more

Starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young
Director Sam Peckinpah
Genres Action/Adventure

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Convoy

A mile-long convoy of protesting truckers are chased through three states by a corrupt speed-trap cop. And the green light is given via the CB airwaves for a convoy of moving violations in an all-action big-wheel adventure.

Starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Seymour Cassel, Madge Sinclair, Cassie Yates, Franklin Ajaye, Brian Davies, Walter Kelley
Director Sam Peckinpah
Studio OPTIMUM - CANAL + INDY
Run time DVD: 1 hr 46 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 12.gif
Genres Action/Adventure
Language English
Dubbed French, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles French
Released DVD: 05 Mar 2001
Production year: 1978
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (4) of Convoy

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Forget about the inanities of Smokey and the Bandit, this film remains the epitome of trucking movies. Kris Kristofferson plays the heroic driver who thumbs his nose at authority and collects a disparate group of truckers for an epic journey across the US, which sees him cross the roadblocks of sheriff Ernest Borgnine. It's pretty lightweight fare for director Sam Peckinpah, but he builds an unstoppable momentum that makes you forget about the weak performances from Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw. The appalling title song by CW McCall, which is actually the source of the movie, was a massive hit at the time.

    • Radio Times
  • Taking CW McCall's hit single as starting-point, scriptwriter Bill Norton (director of Cisco Pike) makes Rubber Duck... read more on Time Out

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  • 9 out of 9 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    A classic

    This is just a classic film from a time when things were more friendly a the good buddies pulling together films like this dont need big budgets or special effects...

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Hmmm

    Good flick, although I can't understand why some bits were cut from the video I have.

    Worth a watch, if only for a laff.

      • A customer from Scotland
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    The Ballad of Cable Hogue

    Peckinpah Convoy to get remake

    • 09 Dec 2005

    Sam Peckinpah's trucking movie Convoy is set to be remade. The film, which originally starred Kris Kristofferson and Ernest Borgnine, will be directed for the second time by John Singleton, the man behind Boyz 'N The Hood, 2 Fast 2 Furious and this year's sleeper hit Four Brothers. The original, based on a country and western song, told the story of a group of truckers who take revenge on a small town sheriff by creating a mile-long convoy. Singleton's version will be set in Afghanistan and... Read more

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