#Convoy is a 1978 American road action-comedy film directed by #SamPeckinpah & starring #KrisKristofferson, #AliMacGraw, #ErnestBorgnine, #BurtYoung, #MadgeSinclair & #FranklynAjaye. The film is based on the 1975 country & western novelty song #Convoy by #CWMcCall. The film was made when the CB radio/trucking craze was at its peak in the United States, & followed the similarly themed films White Line Fever {1975} & #SmokeyAndTheBandit 1, 2 & 3 {1977 onwards}. It was the most commercially successful film of #Peckinpah's career.
#MoviePlot:
In the Arizona desert, truck driver Martin #RubberDuck Penwald is passed by a woman in a Jaguar XK-E, which leads to an encounter with a state trooper. Proceeding on his way, #RubberDuck runs into fellow truck drivers #PigPen #LoveMachine & #SpiderMike, when another "trucker" informs them over the C.B. Radio that they are okay to increase their speed. The "trucker" turns out to be Sheriff #DirtyLyleShitBird Wallace, a long-time nemesis of the #Duck, who extorts them for $70 each.
The truckers head on to Rafael's Glide-In where the Duck's sometime girlfriend & Lyle's daughter, #Violet, works as a waitress. #Melissa, the driver of the XK-E, is also there; the car broke down & she had to sell it & some of her belongings in an effort to leave Arizona, as she's due in Dallas for a job. The Duck offers Melissa a ride; Violet is unimpressed & ushers him away to give him a special birthday present. While they're away, Wallace shows up at the Glide-In checking plates. #PigPen & #SpiderMike start making fun of #ShitBirdWallace over the diner's base-station C.B Radio, leading to #Wallace attempting to arrest #SpiderMike for "vagrancy". & after this point.. Shit jumps off! #CONVOY.

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