On the street. A couple of people standing and talking. Vehemently. Having a great time – obviously great friends.
As I walked by, I overheard one of the women say in an indignant tone: “Are you crazy??? It was like the best 70’s trucker movie EVER!”
And now I am tormented.
Which movie do you think she was talking about? So much to choose from.
Actually I can’t think of that many trucker movies from the 70s… and only a few good ones at that. The ones that come to mind are
Smokey and the Bandit
White Line Fever
Duel
Convoy
several movies with CB in the name (CB Hustlers, Citizen’s Band, etc.)
Sorcerer
Moonfire
any more?
Oh, I forgot one crucial detail – As I moved on, I heard one of her friends shout, “But what about Smokey & the Bandit??”
So we can cross that one off the list
It was probably High-Ballin’. Had to be.
BTW, was there a trucker movie in the 70’s that Jerry Reed wasn’t in?
I grew up on these movies. It’s funny to say that “I grew up on High-Ballin'” – but it is true.
Did your parents have a CB radio? Mine did.
It has to be Convoy. Has to be.
It’s the song.
I’m going to have to agree with Dan on this one. My dad went out and bought a CB shortly after seeing Kris & Ali. I believe his “handle” was Silver Streak as we drove a silver Volere. big sigh…
Had? There’s still a CB radio sitting in the garage. I have no idea how to hook it up or where the antenna went.
I’ve only seen Smokey and the Bandit, and it would be hard to top that.
I can see it already – Sheila writes these beautiful posts about all matters profound and I’ll still bet that this one about 70’s trucker movies will get like 100 comments.
Are you saying 70’s trucker movies are not profound? Or even, dare I say, beautiful?
Not at all. I still carry the life lessons I learned from Buford T. Justice with me to this day.
“Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin’ logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs
We ‘as headin’ fer bear on I-One-Oh
‘Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck
An’ I’m about to put the hammer on down”
If I find myself singing that softly while shopping or stuck in traffic or something, I’m going to open a whole can of whup-ass on ya :-)
Convoy was a good song but not a good movie, still if it wasn’t Smokey and the Bandit it HAD to be Convoy that they were referring to.
BTW, my Dad’s handle (for all of three month) was the Brown Bomber, we had a hulking brown Chrysler New Yorker and he was a dive bomber in Vietnam. When I “inherited” it a couple years later, that CB saved my ass from more than a couple of speeding tickets on a cross country trip to the Air Force Academy (Radar detectors were very expensive and illegal in my “home” state of VA)
I know it’s not a trucker film, but for some reason I had a really strong Billy Jack flashback while reading this post. Maybe that’s what I was watching in lieu of trucker films.
had to be ‘duel’ they were talking about: dennis weaver in, what, a dodge dart versus a semi? it just doesn’t git any better!
Nooooooo! Not Convoy! My history teacher for 5th and 6th grade used to let us play records (ok, so I aged myself), at the end of class if we were good and every fricken day someone requested that song. It took me YEARS to get it out of my head!
It is because of that *&^%$# ! song that I will never watch that movie. I don’t care if it’s good…I can’t take the trauma.
Best of luck finding out what movie it was anyway.
I’m not sure about the best ’70s trucker movie ever, but the best ’70s trucker movie produced in the last ten years has to be “Black Dog”.
I was thinking “Duel.”
And my parents didn’t have a CB, but my grandfather did. And my mother’s best friend’s father’s NAME was CB.
i’m still partial to smokey myself. i like the camp.
and don’t forget every which way but loose. i think that almost qualifies.
Not much of a trucker movie aficionado. If Sorcerer is a trucker movie, it is the best one mentioned so far. That’s one of the best movies no one ever saw.
For those who care enough to download:
http://www.convoytm.com/Multimedia.html
Duel
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Places Ive littered with my comments the last few days: At Kims Place, she and I comment on movies here and here. Shes also doing a series of features on some of her readers. Her thoughtful one about me is here. Thanks, Kim. At Plugs and Dottles, a …
what’s the one set in Australia? With Stacy Keach, and I think Jamie Lee Curtis, and a serial killer? no, I am not kidding. Stacy drove a truck. It was kinda ‘Duel’-ish.
My favorite Australian road movie: Goodbye Pork Pie.