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Truck Parking Club analyzed numerous film databases to compile a list of 10 classic movies paying homage to the trucking industry. The releases range from the 1930s through the 2020s; however, it ...
'Convoy' is a bad joke that backfires on the director. He has neither the guts to play the movie straight as melodrama nor the sense of humor to turn it into a kind of 'Smokey and the Bandit' comedy. The movie is a big, costly, phony exercise in myth-making, machismo, romance-of-the-open-road nonsense and incredible self-indulgence."
High-Ballin is a 1978 Canadian action comedy film about truckers directed by Peter Carter. The US release was rated PG, with a runtime of 97 minutes. The film primarily depicts a confrontation between a trucker boss and independent truckers. The boss uses a criminal gang to intimidate his rivals, but he is eventually double-crossed by the gang ...
He drives up a dirt road with the truck following. He turns to face the truck in front of a canyon. He wedges his briefcase onto the accelerator and steers the car into the oncoming truck, jumping free at the last moment. The truck hits the car, which bursts into flames, obscuring the driver's view. The truck and car plunge over the cliff.
El Paso Wrecking Corp. is a 1978 American gay pornographic film written and directed by Tim Kincaid, better known as Joe Gage. It is the second in what has come to be known as his "Working Man Trilogy", which begins with 1976's Kansas City Trucking Co. and concludes with 1979's L.A. Tool & Die. The lead roles are by Richard Locke and Fred Halsted.
F.I.S.T. (stylized on-screen as F•I•S•T) is a 1978 American action crime drama film produced and directed by Norman Jewison and starring Sylvester Stallone.Stallone plays a Cleveland warehouse worker who becomes involved in the labor union leadership of the fictional "Federation of Inter-State Truckers" (F.I.S.T.).
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 32% based on 31 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The site's consensus states: "The definitive film about arm-wrestling truck drivers fighting for custody of their children, Over the Top lives down to its title in the cheesiest of ways."
The film debuted at the May 1977 Cannes Film Festival as The Last of the Cowboys. Dimension Pictures acquired distribution rights and re-edited and retitled the film against Fonda's wishes. The Great Smokey Roadblock was previewed on February 3, 1978, in Texas, and had its premiere in Cincinnati on April 12, 1978, before opening in other states.