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Kris Kristofferson (Actor), Ali MacGraw (Actor), Sam Peckinpah (Director) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Franklin Ajaye
  • Directors: Sam Peckinpah
  • Producers: Robert M. Sherman
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: English, German
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Sept. 2013
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (236 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00D48ZPYG
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,396 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Sam Peckinpah's classic road-movie based around the hit song by C.W. McCall. Long-distance trucker Rubber Duck (Kris Kristofferson) is on the run from corrupt sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine). He makes a call on his CB radio asking for assistance from other truckers, many of whom have also fallen foul of Wallace in the past. What follows is a massive truckers' convoy, plenty of CB banter, and a whole lot of smashed-up police cars.

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Even in the tiny genre of films based on songs, Convoy is a strange effort--CW McCall's 1977 CB radio-themed novelty hit was just a collection of trucker slang, but here it is gussied up by Sam Peckinpah (no less) as a big rig reprise of The Wild Bunch with Kris Kristofferson as trucker outlaw hero Rubber Duck and a wonderfully oversized Ernest Borgnine as "Dirty Lyle", the "bear" who hates "breakers" and finally decides to call in the National Guard to help him enforce traffic laws with machine guns. The plot is almost invisible, as Rubber Duck and his breaker buddies just up and decide to trundle their lorries across the Western States in a dash for Mexico (no one ever mentions delivering their loads to intended destinations) and becoming such a folk hero that the creepy governor (Seymour Cassell) tries to cash in. Kristofferson and Borgnine were old Peckinpah hands, as is heroine Ali MacGraw (a characterless photographer) and sidekick Burt Young ("Love Machine" aka "Pigpen"), and there's a lot of business about cops and outlaws who mirror each other, but the main attraction is the visuals--huge trucks rolling across desert roads in clouds of dust, police cars crashing through billboards, trucks demolishing a corrupt small town. There are traces of road-movie melancholia in the depressed cafes, jails and laybys where free spirits are broken, but it's still mostly a cash-in on Smokey and the Bandit with a few rags of poetry tossed into the mix.

On the DVD: A letterboxed print, enhanced for 16x9, looks pretty good, with enough widescreen to get all the trucks into the image. But otherwise this is the sort of release that passes off "chapter search" and "multilingual menus" as extras, although there are basic filmographies for the principal and a poster/photo album. The mono soundtrack comes in English, French, Spanish and Italian. --Kim Newman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 starsMaybe it doesn't deserve five stars, but......
By harpoon guns to 'safe', please on 14 Sept. 2013
Format: DVD
This is an absolute hoot. You don't need to know the plot-it's totally unimportant.

Considering the subject, it's amazing that this could be made so endearingly daft, and you've got to give huge credit to the filmmakers for making it so enjoyable.

The great Ernest Borgnine- how much we miss him !- is brilliant as the nasty-but actually not so- cop.

Kris Kristofferson should've made more films like this, and gets a succession of brilliant quips and one-liners, and actually some quite piercing-and brilliantly timed- lines as well; a number of sequences show just how good KK really is.

The Country sound track is great, and the use of classical music around crashes adds to the way this just reduces me to fits of helpless giggling. Every time.

The political aspects were introduced just to give the thing enough of a plot to make it out to movie length, for it is only based on a song, after all. The destruction of the town by trucks is a masterpiece of slapstick. It's odd to see this from the director that gave us "The Wild Bunch", but it makes it one of the great fun movies of its period.

But, it's endearingly daft. I'm a car driver, so if the speed cops come off worst, how can I not enjoy it, even if it's lorry drivers doing it?

Great fun; it may not deserve five stars for Quality, but for sheer enjoyment it can have no less.
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5.0 out of 5 starsConvoy Blu-ray SUPERB!!!!!!!!
By Paul Flowers on 10 Jun. 2013
Format: DVD
This is an edit of my original review for Convoy on DVD. In this new review I am talking about the Convoy BLU-RAY. I won't review the film, just the Blu-ray transfer and the extras. The picture quality of this Blu-ray release is superb!

The extras are very welcome and not before time. You get a 70 minute documentary with Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine and a few other people talking about the filming process. Interesting stuff, although I already knew most of it. Then there are a couple of bits about deleted scenes and Rubber Duck's truck. The bits about Rubber Duck's truck is very vague, but if you want to know more about it, Google "St Louis Dump Trucks Rubber Duck" You'll find a website for the restored truck along with information about what happened to the original 7 trucks that leave the truck stop following the fight scene with the Police, deleted scenes, filming locations and general trivia. Or, copy and paste the following link:

[...]

I have also made this Google map of the filming locations from the information on the above website, and a couple of emails I have sent to the guy who owns the truck now, many thanks to him for his help. The map can be found here:

[...]

All in all, very happy with my Convoy Blu-ray, well worth the £13 I parted with for it!
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3.0 out of 5 starsPeckinpah muscles in on Burt Reynolds' turf
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 14 Dec. 2007
Format: DVD
Somewhat surprisingly, the watchable but completely forgettable Convoy was the biggest hit of Sam Peckinpah's career, though by all accounts Peckinpah was so stoned on drugs and booze throughout the shoot that he directed little of it, with assistants and James Coburn filling in on the many occasions he couldn't get up the enthusiasm to leave his trailer. It's the kind of film that makes Smokey and the Bandit 3 look substantial and is pretty much a shoo-in as Peckinpah's worst film. There is one good almost balletic sequence of police cars running off dusty backroads set to the accompaniment of a semi-classical version of the C.W. McCall country-and-western song (originally written as a jingle) that provided what little inspiration there was for the film and some good support from Madge Sinclair's Widow Woman. But you can't help feeling that it's straining for significance a bit at times to hide the thinness of it all - truckers are the last of the real cowboys, just tryin' to live free without rules or reasons, don'tcha know - and that it would have been a whole lot more fun with Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason in the Kris Kristofferson and Ernest Borgnine roles. On the plus side at least the action scenes are better handled than in The Killer Elite, although even here some of the signature slow-motion here seems almost accidental, with some scenes fuzzily step-printed in post-production to slow them down (presumably because the few big stunts happened too fast to register onscreen) sticking out like a stylistic sore thumb amid the clarity of the much more effective sequences shot in genuine in-camera slow motion.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsSurprisingly Good Second Time Around!
By Maximus TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 7 April 2003
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Chances are if you are buying this film you've already seen it long ago in your teenage years - you know the plot.
Under another director this movie could have become fluff. The master Peckinpah keeps it taught though, and along with the humour and good time fun injects a gritty quality that probably missed my perception in my youth.
The picture transfer is superb, with strong colours and tones. The one bugbear is the sound. Forget 5.1 Surround. Forget stereo even - this film is offered up in MONO. It's a truckin' shame! Get over it though and just enjoy the film.
Nostalgia is big business these days, and if a yearning for 70's teenage memories has drawn you here you will not be dissapointed.
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