Sam Peckinpah – Convoy [+Extras] (1978)

SYNOPSIS: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald – who goes by the handle “Rubber Duck” – along with his fellow truckers “Pig Pen” and “Spider Mike”, are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle “Cottonmouth” Wallace using a key tool of the trucker’s trade, the citizens’ band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and “Widow Woman”, go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers …

Extras Include:
(All of the extra features here have apparently been ported over from a previous American DVD release)
French and German subtitles
1) Injokes, Friends And Cameos (5:44)
2) Passion and Poetry (doc – making of) (70:02)
3) Three Lost Scenes (5:33)
4) Trucker Notes From Norway (3:04)

https://nitro.download/view/E93A445169BBAAD/Convoy.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/2748ACF0E1C4232/Convoy_Extras.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English French German