L'amour chez les poids lourds (1978)

Director:

Jean-Marie Pallardy

Writers:

Jean-Marie Pallardy (writer)
Oscar Righini

Release Date:

15 February 1978 (Italy)

Genre:

Adult | Adventure | Comedy

Plot:

The Story of Oddyseus and the Sirens placed in the countryside France. Oddyseus is a trucker and his Penelope runs a café. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Sex | Hardcore | Erotica

Cast

Georges Guéret	...	Jojo (as Georges Guéret)
Elizabeth Turner	...	Pamela
Nikki Gentile	...	Jacqueline
Jean-Marie Pallardy	...	Ulysse
Jean Luisi	...	Gigi
Jean-Claude Strömme
Johnny Wessler
Franco Daddi
Gilberto Galimberti
Giacomo Furia
Paola Maiolini	...	Emily (as Paolo Maïolini)
Ely Galleani	...	Ellie
Annik Borel	...	Transvestite (as Annick Borel)
Alessandra Vazzoler	...	Woman with eye patch
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Liliane Greco	...	Charlotte (uncredited)
Mike Monty	...	(uncredited)
Ajita Wilson	...	Calypso (uncredited)

Directed by
Jean-Marie Pallardy

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jean-Marie Pallardy		writer
Oscar Righini		(as Oscar Roy)

Original Music by
Georges Bacri
Eddie Warner

Cinematography by
Guy Maria		(as Guy René André Maria)

Film Editing by
Raimondo Crociani

Art Direction by
Amedeo Mellone

Set Decoration by
Massimo Bolongaro

Makeup Department
Luciana Maria Costanzi	....	hair stylist (as Maria Costanzi)
Mario Scutti	....	makeup artist

Production Management
André Chelossi	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Marco Righini	....	assistant director
Jean-Claude Strömme	....	assistant director (as Jean Claude Strömme)

Camera and Electrical Department
Cesare Pellegrini	....	electrician
Marco Righini	....	still photographer

Editorial Department
Bruno Zincone	....	assistant editor (as Bruno Zinconne)

Production Companies

• Consul International Films
• Les Films J.M.P.

Distributors

• Consul International Films (1978) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Audi Film
• Le Chat Qui Fume (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• Music Video Distributors (MVD) (2009) (USA) (DVD) (as "Truck Stop")
• Stablecane Ltd. (1986) (UK) (VHS)
• Xtasy Video (????) (UK) (VHS)

Also Known As:

"Truck Stop" - UK, USA (DVD title)
"Traveling Companions" - USA (video title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

UK:18 | Norway:18 (video premiere)

Company:

Consul International Films

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005) (V)

Literature lends class to a French soft core movie

There is nothing on the sleeve of the DVD to suggest this was other than standard soft porn fare. Whilst it's hardly great, the ingenuity with which the makers translate the Greek classic Odyssey deserves some praise.

Ulysse is a truck driver who gets lost in the desert after his middle-aged co-driver is lured away by a mirage of beautiful women (The Sirens). They are rescued by a beautiful woman who lives by an oasis (Calypso) who falls in lust with Ulysse and keeps him with her for weeks. Meanwhile Ullyss' wife Pamela (Penelope) finds her restaurant gradually filling up with bachelor truckers who think Ulysse is dead and fancy claiming his wife and his business. The plot alternates between Ulysse trying to make the difficult journey home, encountering a one-eyed ogreish woman (the Cyclops), whilst back at the café the suitors and local whores stage drunken sex games and circle around the resourceful Pamela.

All the women, Cyclops excepted, are beautiful and sexy, whilst the men are generally hairy and rather gnomic looking. If you can get past that, this is a bawdy romp with a bizarre musical soundtrack of poor cover versions of sixties and seventies pop songs. The sun constantly shines on the lovely French countryside and film is pretty professionally made. The dubbing is haphazard on the English version but even with that obstacle, Elizabeth Turner gives an elegant, sensuous performance as Pamela, making her a woman well worth crossing a desert for.