Customer Reviews

Convoy Uncut Widescreen Edition

5 star:		(53)
4 star:		(27)
3 star:		(14)
2 star:		(15)
1 star:		(20)

 

 

I have the Parkenfiled VHS Edition (UK) of Convoy and the picture quality is much better than the DVD that I purchased from Amazon.
Amazon is offering two versions of this movie; one being "Cheezy Flicks Entertainment" and the other is the "Triumph Marketing" version.
I ordered the "Cheezy Flicks Entertainment" version of Convoy - it's terrible! I don't have any idea about the "Triumph Marketing" release of this DVD.
If you have VHS version of this great movie don't waste your money ordering the "Cheezy Flicks Entertainment" DVD version.

Movie: Perfect (5 stars)
Action: Good
Year: 1978
Time : 106 minutes
Studio: Cheezy Flicks Entertainment
DVD picture quality: Poor
DVD featurette: None
Subtitles: None
DVD user interface: Non-user friendly
DVD sound: Poor

Don't be fooled by the cover. This is NOT a collector's edition letterbox edition. The film's original 2.35:1 widescreen has been bizarrely changed to 1.85:1. The result is an unpleasant warped, squished image. It is such a staggeringly pointless and inept thing to do, I contacted Cheezy Flicks for an explananation. They blamed the "third party" who supplied them with the transfer. If so, shame on them for selling it anyway. A cynical piece of junk. Avoid.

I mainly purchased this DVD to have an archive of my dad's stunts. He was the stunt double for Ernest Borgnine and worked on this movie for several months in 1977. I am very dissapointed in the sound and picture quality of this movie. "CheesyFlicks" lists this as being digitally remastered... I would hate to have seen it before it was "remastered". The aspect ratio makes it look strange, it looks like it's slightly out of focus, and there are pops and buzzing throughout. I'm going to keep the DVD only because I want a record of my dads stunt work, not because of its' quality. Maybe the "Triumph Marketing" version is better, but wasn't available at the time that I ordered mine.

Movie is ok, but not like the movie on T.V. This one is cut and the one that I seen on T.V. was not cut. One scene that was cut from the dvd is where the man is talking to the truckers all down the line as to why they are in the convoy and it shows a trucker mooning the camera.

All Convoy fans beware-Buy the cheaper version DVD that AMAZON offers and pass the expensive one up. I got so excited after my three week wait when my new DIGITALLY REMASTERED VERSION of this great movie showed up. I immediatly put it into my DVD player and what do I see after I push play? A very [bad] picture with the sound to match. The picture is bearable but the static you here through the whole movie is not. I just spent [money] on a DVD that sounds worse than some of my dusty, old records ... To some it up, awesome trucking movie, definatly add it to your collection-especially if you like good ol' 70's flicks. Just don't buy the SO CALLED DIGITALLY REMASTERED VERSION! RATED PG-BRIEF STRONG LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE, BRIEF NUDITY AND PLENTY OF DESTRUCTION! THIS MOVIE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED A PG-13 RATING IN TODAYS STANDARDS.

Of all the trucking movies filmed, Convoy has to be the premier! What amazes me is that one can obtain any one of the other trucking movies to come out of the '70's and '80's, yet convoy remains elusive like the finest of gems. Convoy relates to the trucking industry as much today as it did when first released. Unlike the others, Convoy remains a true classic. I rate convoy as the best trucking movie to come out of Hollywood, ever. BRING THIS MOVIE BACK!!!

I love a good '70s cb radio movie as much as the next person and I really love this movie. However, this dvd is of very poor quality-it looks like it was taped off an old tv set and the sound is not synched with the picture. I couldn't watch it. It was put out by a company called Cheezy Flicks. I won't be buying anything else they put out. Let's hope some other company does a professional job of transferring this fun movie onto a dvd...how hard could it really be???

I just watched this DVD version of Convoy and was a little disappointed. Being a fan of the movie, I was all excited to get the DVD only to find out that some of the movie is missing; specifically the scene when the reporter is talking with the Duck. The Duck tells the reporter to ask the rest of the convoy why they are there and he does. The DVD version of this scene has a broken conversation with the Duck, then the Preacher, and back to the Duck. In addition to this the sound quality is not that great and a few times it is mute for a second. At the very beginning of the movie the video jumps once or twice but is good for the most part. The DVD says it is "Digitally Remastered" to me it looks like cheezyflicks.com recorded this movie from HBO and "Digitally Remastered" their copy.
Personally I would recommend finding a good VHS version and burn it to DVD yourself or wait till it is released from the film industry.

I throughly enjoyed this movie as a child and just as much as an adult. I am also sure that others feel as I do , and was horrified to find that when I tried to purchase a copy , that none were available in vhs (I live in australia),or DVD which I don't at present own,but would gladly buy to continue my enjoyment of this movie. Please bring this movie back as I am sure more people other than myself enjoyed this movie and would like to continue to enjoy it. Please note that very few stores still have this movie on the shelf and those that do wont part with it.

Digitally remastered my A$$!!It looks like they copied it off a vhs tape and a poor one at that!I wish I would have read the reviews before buying it, but I was so excited to get to my hands on it.Now I got to see if I can get my money back(I doubt though)