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19 April 1974 (USA)
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Black, bold and bloody mean!
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Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him...
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[DVD Review] Mirageman
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DVD Of The Week: Next Day Air
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(From JustPressPlay. 7 October 2009, 7:03 AM, PDT)
DVD Of The Week: Next Day Air
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Isaac Hayes - King Of Cool
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Isaac Hayes | ... | Mac 'Truck' Turner | |
| Yaphet Kotto | ... | Harvard Blue | |
| Alan Weeks | ... | Jerry | |
| Annazette Chase | ... | Annie | |
| Nichelle Nichols | ... | Dorinda | |
| Sam Laws | ... | Nate Dinwiddie | |
| Paul Harris | ... | Richard Leroy 'Gator' Johnson | |
| Charles Cyphers | ... | Drunk | |
| John Kramer | ... | Desmond | |
| Scatman Crothers | ... | Duke | |
| Dick Miller | ... | Fogarty | |
| Bob Harris | ... | Snow | |
| Jac Emil | ... | Reno | |
| Stan Shaw | ... | Fontana | |
| Wendell Tucker | ... | Wendell |
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Black Bullet
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91 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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France:-16 |
West Germany:18 |
Australia:R |
Netherlands:16 |
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UK:18 |
USA:R |
Norway:18 (video rating)
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Originally developed as a film for actor Robert Mitchum. After Mitchum, 'James Coburn' was attached to star as Truck Turner, but that fell through as well. Having already invested in the script, American International Pictures decided to turn it into an "urban picture" and cast a black actor. Dick Anthony Williams, best know for his work in The Mack (1973) and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) was initially cast, but was quickly replaced by Isaac Hayes, who wanted to get into acting. It was also felt that Hayes had a bigger name draw than Williams.
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Referenced in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
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A fan of 70s Blaxploitation cinema, I've had "Truck Turner" of 1974 sitting on my DVD shelf for some time now, always eager to watch it, and the recent death of Isaac Hayes (R.I.P. big man) was reason enough to finally do so. And I was not disappointed. Isaac Hayes is probably most prominent in Blaxploitation cinema for composing and performing the theme song for the sub-genre's most famous film, Gordon Parks' "Shaft" of 1971, and he also starred as the super-tough and super-cool eponymous hero in a flick that ranges among the most entertaining of its kind - namely this, "Truck Turner". The bald and bearded Mac 'Truck' Turner is a former football player turned bounty hunter and Hayes is supremely bad-ass in the role. Inbetween crime-busting and drinking sessions with his colleague Jerry (Alan Weeks), Truck, who sleeps with his holster on and whose mere name makes the bad guys shake in fear, pays visits to his sexy girlfriend who tends to get jailed for her quick temper...
The film basically has everything good blaxploitation cinema needs: A super-tough bad-ass of a hero as you will only see them in 70s cinema, a cool sidekick, eccentric villains, violent shootouts, funky music, delightfully vulgar slang dialogue including many unforgettable lines and, last but definitely not least, dozens of sexy and dangerous women. None other than Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols plays the beautiful and lethal crime-madame and prostitution-mastermind Dorinda, and Yaphet Kotto (Alien) makes a perfect crime-boss in his role of Harvard Blue. Alan Weeks makes a good sidekick for Truck Turner and beautiful Annazette Chase fits greatly in the role of Truck's girlfriend. Isaac Hayes himself is great, simply the definition of Bad-Ass in his role. Every line he says is the epitome of coolness, and so is everything he does. The funky theme-song, which was, of course, composed and sung by Hayes himself, is great and contributes a lot to the unique blaxploitation feeling. The film furthermore profits from great camera work - Truck blows them baddies away from some very cool angles. All in all, "Truck Turner" should not be missed by a fan of 70s Exploitation cinema. Highly Recommended!