Product Details

• Actors: Chuck Norris, George Murdock, Terry O'Connor, Don Gentry, John Di Fusco
• Directors: Don Hulette
• Writers: Terry Chambers
• Producers: Don Hulette, Bernard Tabakin, John Burrows, Samuel Schulman
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Good Times Video
• VHS Release Date: May 15, 2001
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303471455
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,008 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Made in the heady days of movies like Convoy and Smokey and the Bandit, when CB radios were expected to create the kind of communication network the Internet has provided, Breaker! Breaker! tells the tale of J.D. Dawes (Chuck Norris of Good Guys Wear Black and TV's Walker, Texas Ranger), a trucker in tight jeans and a blonde shag. While J.D. is defending his arm-wrestling reputation in a truck stop poolroom, his younger brother Billy is being taken advantage of by the crooked cops of Texas City, California, a former ghost town turned would-be tourist trap, run by a corrupt judge named Joshua Trimmings. When the scam gets out of hand, Billy disappears--and J.D. comes to town to find him. There are many campy things to appreciate about Breaker! Breaker! (the sequined collar of the shirt Norris wears during a meditation teaching, or the glorious air-brushed eagle on Norris's van), and by contemporary Jackie Chan/The Matrix standards the fighting is slow and unspectacular--but ironically, this actually gives the action some grit and makes the blows feel more visceral than the wild flips and kicks of more recent movies. The chase scenes have surprising momentum, and there's some fine scenery-chewing by George Murdock as the wicked judge. And for a curious bit of trivia, Jack Nance--who must have been playing the lead in David Lynch's Eraserhead concurrent with Breaker! Breaker!--plays a trucker friend of Norris's. --Bret Fetzer

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An early Chuck Norrris thriller showing his fighting skills, December 21, 2011

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Israel Drazin (Boca Raton, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breaker! Breaker! (DVD)

This 1977 90 minute film shows us a youthful Chuck Norris who is almost unrecognizable today, with long bleached blond hair. He is introduced to us in a vignette where he arm wrestles an obviously strong man and wins, showing us that Norris is a very powerful man. In another scene, we are shown the very close relationship that Norris has with his younger brother, and we also see that Norris is a truck driver, and other truck drivers have great respect for him and like him.

All goes well until the day his young brother takes his first truck load. While driving, a policeman, later shown to be a cop of a bad town, stops him and tells him that he needs to drive through a town, because the road he planned to take is closed. The boy is arrested and fined a considerable amount of money. The town and its drunken leader earn money by taking exorbitant illegal fines and producing and selling moonshine. The boy reacts badly, makes foolish remarks, is beat up, and hidden in a barn.

Norris goes in search of his brother and the film shows how he needs to fight with bare hands more than a dozen people, some with guns and knives. The ending, which I will not disclose, has good people do things that seem to me to be illegal, but it adds to the excitement of the film.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Action Flick, not a bad start for Chuck Norris, December 9, 2000

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Mason Stone (Bedford, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breaker! Breaker! (DVD)

Chuck Norris made his starring Debut in this slightly hokey action film about a trucker who's brother gets caught in a one horse speedtrap of a town called Texas City. The DVD was mastered well with both wide and full screen versions. My only complaint is a lack of a trailer and the misprint of the time on my copy of the disk. How they lost 20 minutes of movie on the case is a mystery to me, as the movie really is 85 minutes, not 65.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truckin Action, June 23, 2000

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Marilyn De Jong (Ripon, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breaker Breaker [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Very good movie lots of truckin action and other stuff like that also lots of talk on CBs. Chuck Norris does a good job as a trucker and others do to.