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Convoy was a movie released in 1978, directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, and Burt Young. Co-starring: Madge Sinclair, Seymour Cassel, and Franklyn Ajaye.

Synopsis

Independent truckers form a mile-long convoy in support of a fellow trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff. Based on the 1976 hit country song by C.W. McCall.

The trip touches on social empowernment issues of class, race and gender as well as the place of the law in modern society. As the rebellious truckers run from the police, "The Rubber Duck" (Kristofferson) becomes a reluctant folk hero.

Eventually culminating in a show down on the Gulf of Mexico, this is really a Western film with a modern setting, the individualistic American dreamers, running foul of the law.

Trivia

Director Sam Peckinpah had a cameo as a sound gaffer during the on the road interview scene.
The truck Burt Young was driving belonged to "Paulie Hauling" of New Jersey, after Young's Paulie character in Rocky
.

Soundtrack

Features

"Convoy" by C.W McCall
"Lucille" by Kenny Rogers

The soundtrack album has sold in the region of 3 million copies to date.

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