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Truck Turner

  • 1974
  • R
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
3.4K
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Truck Turner (1974)
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While tracking a strong-armed pimp who has skipped bail, a bounty hunter discovers a contract has been put out on him and must go on the run.While tracking a strong-armed pimp who has skipped bail, a bounty hunter discovers a contract has been put out on him and must go on the run.While tracking a strong-armed pimp who has skipped bail, a bounty hunter discovers a contract has been put out on him and must go on the run.

  • Director
    • Jonathan Kaplan
  • Writers
    • Oscar Williams
    • Michael Allin
    • Leigh Chapman
  • Stars
    • Isaac Hayes
    • Yaphet Kotto
    • Alan Weeks
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    3.4K
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    • Director
      • Jonathan Kaplan
    • Writers
      • Oscar Williams
      • Michael Allin
      • Leigh Chapman
    • Stars
      • Isaac Hayes
      • Yaphet Kotto
      • Alan Weeks
    • 53User reviews
    • 56Critic reviews
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    Annazette Chase in Truck Turner (1974)
    Yaphet Kotto and Nichelle Nichols in Truck Turner (1974)
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    Isaac Hayes and Annazette Chase in Truck Turner (1974)

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    Isaac Hayes
    Isaac Hayes
    • Truck
    Yaphet Kotto
    Yaphet Kotto
    • Blue
    Alan Weeks
    Alan Weeks
    • Jerry
    Annazette Chase
    Annazette Chase
    • Annie
    Nichelle Nichols
    Nichelle Nichols
    • Dorinda
    Sam Laws
    Sam Laws
    • Nate Dinwiddie
    Paul Harris
    Paul Harris
    • Gator
    Charles Cyphers
    Charles Cyphers
    • Drunk
    John Kramer
    • Desmond
    Scatman Crothers
    Scatman Crothers
    • Duke
    Dick Miller
    Dick Miller
    • Fogarty
    Roland Bob Harris
    • Snow
    • (as Bob Harris)
    Jac Emel
    • Reno
    • (as Jac Emeil)
    Stan Shaw
    Stan Shaw
    • Fontana
    Wendell Tucker
    • Wendell
    Sonny Barnes
    • Toro
    • (as Clarence Barnes)
    Don Watters
    • Val
    Eddie Smith
    Eddie Smith
    • Druggist
    • Director
      • Jonathan Kaplan
    • Writers
      • Oscar Williams(screenplay by)
      • Michael Allin(screenplay by)
      • Leigh Chapman(story by)
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    • Trivia
      Originally developed as a film for Robert Mitchum. After Mitchum, James Coburn was attached to star- 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 was a bigger name draw than Williams.
    • Goofs
      In almost all shootouts, revolvers fire more than 6 rounds without reloading.
    • Quotes

      Dorinda: Now all you whores sit down. I wanna talk to you. Anybody thinking about leaving here is gonna find my left foot square up your ass! Do you understand that?

      [Turnpike mumbles to Annette]

      Dorinda: [yells at Turnpike] Shut up, you junkie whore! I'm talkin' to you! And those two bitches that left, they'd better learn to sell pussy in Iceland because if I ever see them again, I'm gonna cut their fuckin' throats! We are family... and that's what we're gonna stay. Now I got important business out there today. And when I call you, I want you to come out there and shake your asses proper! You hear? HUH? Now get out there and make it look good! And Raquel, take that fuckin' jacket off! MOVE IT!

    • Alternate versions
      The original UK cinema release was cut for an 'X' certificate to remove a man being kneed in the groin and a shot of Truck pushing a gun into a guard's buttocks. All later releases were uncut.
    • Connections
      Featured in 3 Strikes (2000)

    User reviews53

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    6/10
    That's Mack 'Truck' Turner
    Carrying around a 44 Magnum that was probably bought at the same place Dirty Harry Callahan bought his, Isaac Hayes essays the role of Truck Turner, former pro-football player turned skip tracer. Hayes is not too squeamish about what he has to do to bring back a given quarry and along with partner Alan Weeks, being a skip tracer he's not bound by the rules that Clint Eastwood has to live by as a cop.

    My best recollection of Isaac Hayes is as the jail house friend of James Garner in The Rockford Files. Gandolf Fitch was a man of few words and a very short fuse and next to him, Truck Turner is positively garrulous.

    The first part of the film is almost lighthearted in nature as we see Hayes and Weeks go about their jobs and we Hayes's relationship with girlfriend Anazette Chase. She's a nice woman, but an incurable shoplifter that Hayes constantly has to bail out and pay the fines or the merchandise for. The end of the first half though concludes with a car chase to rival Bullitt in which Weeks is wounded and their skip trace, a pimp played by Paul Harris is killed.

    After this the film changes mood so abruptly it's like watching a second film. Harris's woman and partner Nichelle Nichols wants Hayes dead and will pay anything for it and brings in a whole bunch of business competitors led by Yaphett Kotto to do the job. The second half of the film is a serious of gunfights, climaxed by a blazing shootout in a hospital.

    For those who remember Nichelle Nichols as the nice Lieutenant Uhura forever with that earpiece and trying to open channels on the starship Enterprise, you won't recognize the murderous fury that's in this character played by the same woman. She steals the film from Hayes in every scene she's in. I would not want her on my case.

    Truck Turner is a good action film with an astonishing portrayal from Nichelle Nichols. Star Trek fans might want to check this one out.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 17, 1975 (Denmark)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Truck
    • Filming locations
      • 1235 Sierra Alta Way, Los Angeles, California, USA(mansion)
    • Production companies
      • American International Pictures (AIP)
      • Sequoia Productions
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $177,372
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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