tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post1338541242849108290..comments2024-03-14T19:14:03.059-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Anti-Authority Nowhere Land: CONVOY (1978)Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-88176176280061722442017-06-07T13:41:55.352-05:002017-06-07T13:41:55.352-05:00I watched Convoy a couple of years ago, and man, w...I watched Convoy a couple of years ago, and man, what a dog of a movie. It was really hard to find any kind of legitimate conflict - how big was Ernest Borgnine's county? You forgot, or I missed, the BIG Trucker TV show, Movin' On! It starred Claude Akins, and they were truckers who changed the lives of the people in the towns they passed through Had a great country theme song. Big wheels rolling, got to keep 'em going, big wheels rolling, Movin' On! (Don't ask me to do math) I was a kid when the trucker craze swept the nation, but being a Texan, the redneck angle of it was everyday life for me. So when I saw the movie, I had to look up, Why the CB craze? Turned out, it was in reaction to the lowering of the highway speed limits from 70 to 55, in reaction to the fuel shortage, and the truckers would form convoys because Smoky couldn't stop them all! That's a pretty big FU to Government! That said, there was always a trucker contingency to county music, with Gitty-Up-Go and Teddy Bear, and even an early version of the Blue Collar comedy vein with trucker jokes. But yeah, Convoy, that's a movie based on contracts more than script rewrites. Great cast, but, to no end, Good Buddy.johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11799326880962880585noreply@blogger.com