Truck Turner [DVD]

Issac Hayes carrying the whole weight of an action film alone? A film starring HIM??? At first I thought it's ridiculous. Well, he is a great singer, but .... Then I watched this film, and twice, and am convinced. He should do that more!! Yes, I acknowledge he cannot act like DeNiro or Pacino, and the story of his love interest is as convincing as love between Josh, Ben, and Kate in "Pearl Harbor." But given a right material like this, his towering physical presence makes up for anything single-handedly.Truck Turner is an ex-football player, and now a bounty-hunter. With his partner Jerry, nothing can stop them. Nothing. If you are disliked by him, pray it ends soon -- because his huge fists are flying to you right in the face! But one day his botched job getting a guy named Gator leads to his being THE most wanted man for the gangsters. They attack him, his office, and his room even, but now it's Turner's turn to pay back!!!Frankly, the film is too violent, and one scene made me cry "Oh, PLEASE! DON'T HANG THAT!" But Hayes is well-cast and credible as a no-nonsense bounty-hunter, and actions are good. But the most memorable is Nichelle Nichols's "madam," whose foul-mouthed acting completely shatters the good old memory of "Star Trek" fans. (Where did our Uhula go? Or, is this what she really wanted to do?) Another impressive point is director Jonathan Kaplan, who sometimes gives strong emphasis to darker nuance of his direction (maybe overdirection, some say) later seen in his Jodie Foster film "The Accused." The fate of Yaphet Kotto is captured in a very bleak way, which reminds us of Christopher Walken in a very violent noir "The King of New York."Though I don't share the enthsiastic praise of other reviewers, "Truck Turner" is a great action film, which is raised higher one notch above than average blaxploitaion films. If there should be a sub-genre like "bounty-hunter movies," this comes to the top alongside with more comical "Midnight Run."If you don't know the details of bounty-hunting and bailbonding, you may not enjoy the film fully. In that case, you might as well see Trantino's "Jackie Brown," in which another icon Pam Grier showcases her great talent as the title heroine.

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I love to watch older movies! It reminds me of simpler times 🥰

This movie is so much fun to watch. Lots of action if your into the movies from the early seventies. Some of the characters are funny as hell. Like the pimps that want to be hit men. Stay in your lane.

Very good movie, I love old school movie. They are the best.

I am very grateful that this came to me without damages or used markings!

The product arrived on time and in great condition. I am a satisfied customer.Marcus

The best part of the movie is that Truck just wants to earn himself a living going after bail jumpers,but as with folks like that things are not going to be made that easy,especially “Gator” Nichelle Nichole’s main squeeze and when ole Truck takes him down a few pegs that’s when the real fun begins

Love this movie, it's an classic! Brought the movie in honor of Nichelle Nichols who recently passed. Thought the $14.99 price was way too much tho!!

Fun movie to watch with your friends. An a case of beer.

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entertaining action pic. includes dick miller in a pink jacket in a courtroom. the hospital shootout has to be seen to be believed. worth your time

A blaxploitation film starring Issaac Hayes with a soundtrack by Issaac Hayes?! This movie is everything it seems like it could be. It's the perfect merging of comedy, action and drama. I have seen many films of this period and I gotta say, this is one of the best!

Truck Turner is a slightly satirical but still relatively serious "blaxploitation" movie, but what's really important is that it's just a great, fun 70's action flick that entertains the whole way through. Upbeat music from star Isaac Hayes, great characters and dialog, fun chases, fun shootouts and some surprising (and very 70's) twists and turns. Any movie with Star Trek's Uhura talking about her prostitutes with phrases like "we call her turnpike, 'cause you pay to get on and pay to get off" can't be anything but entertaining. Seriously good shots like the final battle and use of LA give it scope and intensity too. Just a great package all over.Kino's disc is one of their better ones. The blu-ray has a nice HD image that, while perhaps not a recent remaster, shows a ton of detail and very little flaw. Some noise in dark scenes can distract, but the film grain is usually well-defined and appealing and the urban film look is very well represented. Sound was clean, which was nice since many of these 70's exploitation flicks feature too much crackle and distortion, but Truck Turner sounds like it was cleared up and remastered to some degree with no real flaws.Features include one of the better commentaries I have heard recently. The director and a moderator get into all aspects of production and behind-the-scenes stories and this is one blunt conversation. Very few punches are pulled as the director talks about who had an attitude on set, what the studio really wanted and why many decisions were made (or not made). In addition to this great commentary there is a panel interview, a "trailers from hell" skit and the normal trailer. It's not the most robust package ever seen, but it's all highly entertaining and well worth listening to.Overall Kino hit this one out of the park, much like Miracle Mile, Cherry 2000 and some other releases. They are truly evolving into a very impressive label and Truck Turner is very much a release worth getting if you like 70's action, blaxploitation and good audio commentaries. Highly recommended.

DVD Review: MGM version. It plays.Movie Review: Next to Coffy, this is my favorite Blaxploitation movie of all time. The story, the violence, the dialog, the music, acting....... etc. is all so bad it's great. But one actor I thought was who was legitimately good is Yaphet Kotto. I highly recommend this movie for Exploitation enthusiasts.In Conclusion: 4 Stars for the DVD and 5 stars for the movie.

I stumbled on this movie in a really weird way--I was watching a YouTube video "How DWV Broke Up...William Belli" and saw a clip of the movie Truck Turner. I recognized the "...I want you to come out there and shake your asses proper, ya hear!? Now get out there and make it look good!" speech from when Rob Zombie sampled it on "Dead Girl Superstar." A comment said it was from the movie "Truck Turner," so I found it on Amazon and rented it. This isn't a genre I am familiar with, but I kinda like this movie. That 70s fashion tho! The wrap dresses! The SEQUINS. And the soundtrack...could not stop moving during the movie. <3 Truck Turner!

Truck Turner(1974) is an enjoyable blaxploitation film starring the late Isaac Hayes. It's fun hearing Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols curse like a sailor. Hayes played Mack "Truck" Turner, a bounty hunter who works for the government. Hired assassins try to kill him after he hunts down a pimp. Truck Turner was modern in 1974: there's strong violence, foul language, politically-incorrect humor and sexy women in revealing clothes! Yaphet Kotto played one of the bad guys in the film. He played a Bond villain around this time. Isaac Hayes also composed the music score for the film. In the early 1970's, some people were willing to pay money to see movies about Black anti-heroes. By the 1980's, people were losing interest in the blaxploitation genre. Keenan Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Get You Sucka(1988) is an homage to 1970's blaxploitation films.Truck Turner(1974) is worth watching if you like 1970's cinema.

Isaac Hayes fills the screen with his funny portrayal of a skip tracer in this mildly absurdist drama. He delivers wisecracks like Bruce Willis. The film also has great shots of downtown Los Angeles before it became a concrete canyon. Cat lovers may be stressed out by one scene. Isaac's sidekick also shines, as does Yaphet Kotto and the black chick from Star Trek.

This is a nice forgotten action flick, from the so called black-exploitation film era, Issac Hayes is great in the lead role. Their is also a good supporting cast including Yappat Kotto and Nichelle Nichols of "star trek". I will go to far as say this movie ranks up there with the best films (like Shaft) of that era. Fist fights, car chases, shootouts, anything you could ask for.

Isaac Hayes made his mark by winning an Academy Award for best original song for his work on the 1971 film Shaft, and while his musical compositions for the film Truck Turner (1974) may not have been as successful, it did mark the first time Hayes appeared in a starring role, appearing in one of the better films to come out of the `blaxploitation' era of the 70s, in my opinion. Co-written by Michael Allin (Enter the Dragon), Jerry Wilkes, and Oscar Williams (The Final Comedown, Black Belt Jones), and directed by Jonathan Kaplan (Night Call Nurses, The Accused, "ER"), the film stars Isaac Hayes (Escape from New York, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka), Yaphet Kotto (Live and Let Die, Alien, Midnight Run), and Nichelle Nichols, whom most probably know best from her role on the original Star Trek television series and subsequent films as Lieutenant Uhura, the sexiest communications officer this side of the Crab Nebula...also appearing is Alan Weeks (Black Belt Jones), Annazette Chase (The Mack), Sam Laws (Cool Breeze, Walking Tall), and Paul Harris (Across 110th Street). Appearing in cameo roles are Charles Cyphers (Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York), the legendary Scatman Crothers (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Bronco Billy), veteran character actor and AIP perennial Dick Miller (The Wild Angels, Piranha, Gremlins), and the late Matthew Beard, best known as that bowler hat wearing lil' rascal Stymie, from the Hal Roach `Our Gang' shorts of the 30s.Hayes plays Truck Turner who, along with his partner Jerry (Weeks), make their living as bounty hunters, that is, they run down jive turkeys who jump bail, decided not to participate in the subsequent legal process due to the fact they're probably guilty as sin, and conviction, along with jail time, are imminent. The two are very good at what they do, so much so they often get the jobs no one else wants. One in particular, arises involving a nasty pimp named Gator (Harris). Seems Gator's a two-time loser, and a third conviction would send him up for a long time, so apprehension will be extremely difficult (I think his crime has something to do his painting a Lincoln Continental, with suicide doors, hot pink...egads!). Gator gets jiggy, and Truck and Jerry have to take him down hard, much to the dismay of Gator's woman Dorinda (Nichols), who offers a piece of the action of her stable of extra fine call girls to the first Mack who can bring her the head of Truck Turner...many try, and many fail, meeting up with the business end of Turner's Magnum street cannon, suffering a fatal case of lead poisoning. After the smoke clears, Harvard Blue (Kotto) makes the scene, driving a hard bargain with Dorinda (who's now between a rock and a hard place as Truck learns of her scheme to have him killed), and eventually calls in some heavy duty, out of town hitters. Blue puts the screws to Turner, as he and his men make it extremely personal, but the big payback's coming, as Truck's out to settle everyone's hash....can you dig it? I can...I enjoyed Truck Turner a lot, as it had nearly everything I look for in a blaxploitation film, including lots of action, hard pumping `wakacha' music, interesting characters, misogynistic attitudes (Dorinda was the worst of the bunch, in this aspect), revenge motifs, plenty of colorful slang dialog, car chases, foot chases, serious beat downs, guns, obscenely 70s clothes, foul language, sexy women, bad attitudes, idiot racists getting their due...the only thing the movie lacked was a bit o' the nekkidness (Ms. Nichols had it going on in everyway, too bad she wasn't prone to sharing it like her more well known contemporary Pam Grier). One of the elements I liked most about the film was how director Kaplan kept the story moving along at a strong pace. I thought Hayes did particularly well, this being his first starring role, but the smart casting of experienced actors like Kotto and Nichols helped him immeasurably. I even enjoyed the subplot featuring Truck's girlfriend Annie (Chase), who was recently released from jail. One of my favorite scenes included Truck setting her up on a bogus shoplifting charge if only to put her back in jail and out of harms way. And Truck sure knew how to woo the ladies...where some men might bring flowers when picking up their girlfriend upon release from jail, Truck brings a six-pack. Nothing says `I love you' like a sixer of cheap brew. Another great scene involved Gator's `pimped' out funeral (attention MTV execs, here's a new show idea...Pimp My Funeral...pure programming gold), and the players depositing some white, powdery substance (flour?) into the casket, as a form of respect, I suppose...I'm not familiar with this particular custom, but maybe I'll try it at the next service I attend. As I said, there's no nekkidness, but a whole lot of skin (especially from Hayes' bald head)...if this is so, why's the film rated R? It's simple...the profanities fly through this movie like nobodi...