Peckinpah, ravaged by booze and drugs, still managed to produce this light hearted movie based upon CW McCall's hit single. He successfully parodies his earlier hard hitting work such as The Wild Bunch by transplanting his very wild west to the present day and replacing cowboys and outlaws with truck drivers.
Old Peckinpah cronies like Kristofferson, Borgnine, and MacGraw back up "Bloody Sam" with engaging performances, but it is really the 18 wheelers and the balletic trademark editing style that steal the show. The slow motion fights; all crashing tables and chairs, are delightful nods to his far bloodier gunfights that caused him so much controversy in the past.
Convoy also helped to contribute to the late 70s and early 80s craze for "good ol boys" as heroes after they had such a drubbing in movies like Deliverance. In the 90s that would change again to a deep rooted fear of such characters as they made weird villains in neo-noir films such as Red Rock West and U-Turn. I… more »

Peckinpah, ravaged by booze and drugs, still managed to produce this light hearted movie based upon CW McCall's hit single. He successfully parodies his earlier hard hitting work such as The Wild Bunch by transplanting his very wild west to the present day and replacing cowboys and outlaws with truck drivers.
Old Peckinpah cronies like Kristofferson, Borgnine, and MacGraw back up "Bloody Sam" with engaging performances, but it is really the 18 wheelers and the balletic trademark editing style that steal the show. The slow motion fights; all crashing tables and chairs, are delightful nods to his far bloodier gunfights that caused him so much controversy in the past.
Convoy also helped to contribute to the late 70s and early 80s craze for "good ol boys" as heroes after they had such a drubbing in movies like Deliverance. In the 90s that would change again to a deep rooted fear of such characters as they made weird villains in neo-noir films such as Red Rock West and U-Turn. I wonder what Rubber Duck would make of that?