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Breaker! Breaker! (1977)
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15 May 1981 (West Germany) moreTagline:
A town without justice. A hero without fear. morePlot:
Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge. | add synopsisUser Comments:
C.B. Radio porn for the Smokey And The Bandit / Convoy / Cannonball crowd moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Chuck Norris | ... | John David 'J.D.' Dawes | |
| George Murdock | ... | Judge Trimmings | |
| Terry O'Connor | ... | Arlene | |
| Don Gentry | ... | Sergeant Strode | |
| John Di Fusco | ... | Arney | |
| Ron Cedillos | ... | Deputy Boles | |
| Michael Augenstein | ... | Billy Dawes | |
| Dan Vandegrift | ... | Wilfred | |
| Douglas Stevenson | ... | Drake | |
| Paul Kawecki | ... | Wade | |
| Larry Feder | ... | George | |
| Jack Nance | ... | Burton | |
| David Bezar | ... | Tony | |
| Miranda Garrison | ... | Barmaid | |
| Amelia Laurenson | ... | Luana |
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86 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoCertification:
Norway:15 (DVD rating) | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) | Australia:M | Finland:(Banned) | France:-12 | UK:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:16 | Norway:(Banned) (1980-2003) (cinema release)Filming Locations:
Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USAFun Stuff
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Continuity: The same Plymouth Valiant and Lincoln are smashed twice in the compressor machine in the junkyard. moreQuotes:
Hillbilly: I'm gonna stick ya! moreSoundtrack:
WE NEVER SAID HELLO moreFAQ
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This movie is like 84 minutes of straight up C.B. Radio porn for the Smokey And The Bandit / Convoy / Cannonball crowd, as it typifies the country-music-infused blue-collar-trucker sub-genre of movies that peaked in the late 1970's. But this film is more notable to me because it is Chuck Norris' debut in a starring role. The 2000 bare-bones MGM DVD is Widescreen 1.85:1 with Mono sound.
In it Chuck Norris plays J. D. Dawes, yet another one of your average 'martial arts truck drivers' who's little brother Billy is essentially held hostage by an entire town while making his first solo run as a big-rig driver himself. In this back water town, the police to the judge are corrupt, and is run on the money it extorts by unscrupulously diverting honest truckers from the main hi-way to their fly-trap town, where they impose a bunch of tariffs and taxes on the truckers cargo...or risk having their haul impounded, basically stolen. In the case of the naive driver Billy Dawes, this is exactly what happens; his valuable cargo of, yes...TV dinners...is impounded and he is thrown into the local jail for disrespectin' the judge.
Well typical of all other Chuck Norris films for the next 30 years, what happens then is obvious; J. D. Dawes goes on a one man ass-kicking mission to rescue the innocent, even if it means taking on the whole town! This film is nowhere near as entertaining or fast paced as Norris' 1980's Cannon fare, rather the action here is sparse and the acting plain bad. The director and producer Don Hulette, also wrote the music, what a renaissance man.