Dall'Arizona un'immensa carovana di Tir tenta di raggiungere il New Mexico. Un gruppo di camionisti ben decisi a non rispettare i limiti di velocità, sta scappando dai soprusi di un perfido ... Leggi tuttoDall'Arizona un'immensa carovana di Tir tenta di raggiungere il New Mexico. Un gruppo di camionisti ben decisi a non rispettare i limiti di velocità, sta scappando dai soprusi di un perfido e disonesto sceriffo.Dall'Arizona un'immensa carovana di Tir tenta di raggiungere il New Mexico. Un gruppo di camionisti ben decisi a non rispettare i limiti di velocità, sta scappando dai soprusi di un perfido e disonesto sceriffo.
- Premi
- 3 vittorie e 1 candidatura
- Big Nasty
- (as J. D. Kane)
- Pack Rat
- (as Billy E. Hughes)
- Old Iguana
- (as Bill Foster)
- Lizard Tongue
- (as Thomas Huff)
- Rosewell
- (as Allen R. Keller)
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Bill Norton
- Chip Davis(non citato nei titoli originali)
- Bill Fries(non citato nei titoli originali)
- Tutti gli interpreti e le troupe
- Produzione, botteghino e altro su IMDbPro
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- QuizDirector Sam Peckinpah allowed actor and long-time associate James Coburn to work on the movie as a second-unit director to get his DGA card. Rumor has it that Coburn actually directed some scenes when Peckinpah was "unwell."
- BlooperThe engine sound of the Duck's truck changes repeatedly - i.e. at one point it's a Detroit Diesel, then Cummins, then Cat, and at one point a Chevy smallblock.
- Citazioni
Melissa: Why do they call you the Duck?
Rubber Duck: Because it rhymes with "luck." See, my daddy always told me to be just like a duck. Stay smooth on the surface and paddle like the devil underneath!
- Curiosità sui creditiDuring the final credits, clips from the movie are played. These include a few brief shots which don't appear in the final film (such as the final clip of the couple in the antique car). The clips also *roughly* follow the film backwards (the first few clips are from the end of the film, and they progress back to the beginning).
- Versioni alternativeThe Kino Lorber Blu-ray Disc release of 2015 is complete/uncut.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Behind the Action: Stuntmen in the Movies (2002)
- Colonne sonoreConvoy
Composed by Chip Davis and Bill Fries
Amercian Gramaphone SESAC
Performed by Bill Fries (as C. W. McCall)
After the Rubber Duck and two of his trucker pals Love Machine & Spider Mike,Burt Young & Franklyn Ajaye, were entrapped by the nasty and vindictive local Sheriff Lyle Wallace, Earnest Borgnine,for illegally using the trucker CB-handle name Cottonmouth. Their shaken down by the "lawman" for $70.00 each in order to avoid having their trucks impounded and them being thrown behind bars.
The three later Going to the local truck stop to celebrate the Rubber Ducks birthday and have a few drinks are again confronted by the lawman. Sheriff Wallace, still not satisfied with pushing the truckers around, comes snooping around the area to make a few more bucks off the abused haulers. Wallace picks on poor Spider Mike accusing him of loitering and is about to throw him in jail. Spiker Mike pleads to the unfeeling Wallace that his wife is about to give birth and to please leave him alone which doesn't move the sheriff at all. But a straight right to his jaw, by Spider Mike, does make him move right on the butt of his pants. In a bar brawl with the truckers, who come to the aid of Spider Mike Love Machine and the Rubber Duck, Wallace and two of his deputies are knocked out cold and handcuffed as the three truckers together with the Rubber Duck's new found squeeze the plucky and outspoken Melissa (Ali MacGraw), a wedding photographer who's car broke down, then take off and go back on the road again with the entire Arizona Highway Patrol on their tail.
Chased by the crazy Sheriff Wallace, who commandeered a car from a young couple smoking and shearing a joint. the Rubber Duck Love Machine & Spider Mike get the full support from some very expected and unexpected persons that during the remainder of the film has them on the front pages of the news as well as getting the ear of the local governors senators and even the President of the United States himself.
There's strength in numbers is the theme of "Convoy" with the Rubber Duck & friends making a private affair into a public happening. This by drawing attention to the plight of him and his fellow truckers and how their short-changed and ill-treated by everyone down the line, police politicians and big oil, as they try to do their.
The giant convoy of truckers following the Rubber Duck open the eyes of the nation and puts corrupt low-lives like Sheriff Wallace on the front pages. All that showed what these hard working and dedicated men, the truckers, have to put up with every day and night that their on the road. In the end they get the support and respect from the public, as well as the politicians, that they so richly deserve. When the clueless and almost brain-dead politicians see the endless line of the trucker convoy lead by the Rubber Duck they not only stand up and listen but they deliver as well.
One of director Sam Peckinpah's most underrated films that, as far as I could see, had no one killed in it. Even though the amount of violence and explosions were equaled to Peckinpah's famous blood-splattering 1969 classic "The Wild Bunch".
- sol1218
- 27 apr 2005
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- Budget
- 12.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 22.765.081 USD
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 22.765.081 USD