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Every now and then a song becomes the basis for a movie and sadly, this is one. Peckinpah uses a staple of actors from earlier films: Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, Burt Young. A year earlier SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT set off a trucker movie spree ( GREAT SMOKEY ROADBLOCK, BREAKER BREAKER, et al). It has action and wrecks and C.W. McCall's top ten song. Uncut in this German DVD and in widescreen. Sound is spotty. For people, like me, who are Peckinpah completists.
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Here's the update. The Cheezy Flicks DVD version of this is cool yet somewhat disappointing. RE: the aspect ratio and the "squashed video", if played on a Plasma or LCD TV with ratio set at 16X9, it shows it in the 2:35 version. Watched on a reg 4X3 TV it is kinda funky looking.(You might want to check your DVD player settings to make sure they are set at 16X9 and not 4X3) Audio and video are mediocre but it does have some cool drive-in movie intermission promo's and stuff. If you have the right size TV and can get it cheap...do it. C'mon though...it's ain't the frickin' GODFATHER! It's CONVOY! I'm suprised it's not a Pan and Scan TV edit.
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Finally, the uncut version to a childhood favorite....Other versions of this "classic" (in my opinion) are shotty to say the least and usually cut out the "interview" scene and I enjoy that segment as much as the action and the overall anti-establishment, counterculture vibe of the movie. Try making this movie nowadays!!!!
Movies like this used to come on TV every now and then in my youth, but now all we get are romantic comedies and the like and action/car movies in the same vein as this one don't get much run anymore....Thanx for letting me add this to my collection!!!
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As a trucker this has to be one of absolute favorites of all time. I love to see the old Brockway and Diamond Reo trucks and see how folks used to drive before there was power steering, a/c, and air ride suspension back when it was real work to grind gears across the country.
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Ever since I lost my VHS copy of this movie, I have been waiting for it to come out on DVD. I have seen the Cheesy Flicks version and it is not worth the money. Bad editing to make it more PC, when thes movie was made long before the term PC exsisted. I am grateful to Kinowelt for releasing this movie as it should be. And even though it is a release from a company in Germany, the dialog is all in english. Do not be afraid to buy this version.
As for it being a "copy" I could careless its still the movie I want. And if its on a DVDR, I couldn't tell.
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