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White Line Fever

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Ever popular B-grade trucker movie starring square jawed Jan-Michael Vincent as a returned Vietnam veteran who comes home to Tuscon, Arizona to take over his fathers trucking business and marry his teenage sweetheart. However, the well meaning Carrol Jo Hummer (Vincent) soon finds to his dismay that wholesale corruption has permeated the trucking game, and he is forced to either haul illegal loads of cigarettes and slot machines, or he doesn't work at all.

Directed by Jonathon Kaplan ( who later directed many episodes of the hit medico TV series "ER" ), the movie ticks along at a brisk pace and for a modest production, it hits all the right notes. Waif like Kay Lenz is believable as Carrol Jo Hummer's equally strong headed wife, Jerri, and serial cowboy star Slim Pickens ( in obligatory ten gallon hat, bolo ties and embroided suits ) is a hoot as friendly, but weak willed trucking depot boss, Duane Haller. A young Martin Kove is excellent as the taciturn bully, Klem ( breaking Carrol Jo's ribs with a tyre iron ), and another Western genre regular, L.Q. Jones, is equally impressive as the leering Buck Wessell. Plus, keep an eye out for wonderful character actor Dick Miller playing a fellow trucker named R. "Birdie" Corman. ( A film about independant truckers with a sly reference to Hollywood's maverick independant film producer ! )

The truck stunt work was capably handled by noted Hollywood stunt driver, Carey Loftin, who had previously handled the stunt driving in such memorable films as "Duel", "Bullitt", "Vanishing Point" and "Diamonds are Forever", and the creative cinematography of the big rigs was provided by Fred J. Koenekamp. "White Line Fever" was quite a success upon it's release (especially on the drive in circuit ) as it was cashing in on the then popularity of CB radio and the image of truckers as knights of the highways struggling against big business and politics. Not sure if this cult film will ever turn up as a studio release DVD, but one can only wait and hope !

If you like big trucks, lots of action and a pretty good story line, you have to check this movie out! I'm a trucker and loved this movie when it 1st came out and I still love it today! The real star of the movie is the 1974 Ford WT9000 called the Blue Mule as far as I'm concerned! A guy I know in San Diego bought the truck after the movie was filmed and it's still truckin' down I-5 between San Diego and LA. Whether you're a trucker or not, you'll still enjoy the great ride this movie will give you!

very good movie depicting the hardships of an independant trucker
trying to support his family, pay his bills, ect... but is inadvertantly confronted by strongarm BIG business hardball players, who undercut the freight prices, brutally beat- mame- rape- wreck- run off the road- anything to put the little guy independant trucker out of business. The "Blue Mule" handle for Jan Micheal Vincent, ultimately, gets his revenge, at the Glass House,where the corporate Big wigs hang out. A must see movie if you are a trucker, or happen to know anyone who is...

This is one of my favorite trucker movies. This movie took place before deregulation and put everybody behind the big wheel. This is the story of a young trucker (owner operator) that just wanted to make a go for himself and was constantly being forced to become a union organizer agenst his will.

I remember when White Line Fever was being filmed on location in Tucson Arizona back 1974. It is a decent movie about a young truck driver trying to make it in the corrupt trucking industry. If you are interested in and like trucks, you will enjoy this movie from the early 70's. The fifty dollar price tag for the video is high. I taped the movie several years ago one night off HBO.

I love this movie! I saw it when it was released as a kid, back in 1975. I am at the age where my childhood, and everything that I liked back then is new again. I am glad I was able to obtain this movie. It was reasonably priced, too. Slim Pickens, Kay Lenz, and Jan Michael Vincent in their prime! The bad guy from the karate kid plays a dock-worker,Jan Michael Vincent plays Carol Jo Hummer, an independant trucker who just got out of the military, gets married, and goes to the bank to get financing for his purchase. Classic big rigs, as he walks across the sales lot and the salesman describes the truck he will buy with some technical specs. It starts out upbeat and happy, a bright future ahead for this independant trucker! It is when he goes to get work that he finds out he must break the law, and haul slot machines and cigarettes! It all goes down hill from there. A truly great movie, packed with things "they can't do these days" and more. I am also going to purchase the VHS, to compare any differences.

The movie was good, but fifty dollars, is it line with gold, I would like to own the movie but with fifty dollars I can buy at least 4 to 7 movies, maybe it's an error, I would really like to know

Take a slighty younger Brad Pitt, go back over thirty years and you have Jan-Michael Vincent. With the disintergration of his career -- and his life -- since the last decade or so, it is often hard remember just how popular this guy was and this is probably his best remembered film. Kind of the "On the Waterfront" for independent truckers. A cast that includes Kay Lenz (whatever happened to her anyway?), Slim Pickens and a young -- pre- CAGNEY & LACEY -- Martin Kove. Presented in full frame with no extras, this appears to be from the Far East. Still, enjoyable fluff.

This is a very well done tale of a young independent trucker, named Carrol Jo Hummer.You follow him as he tries to fulfill his dream of owning his own rig.Corruption,danger,murder and greed all get in his way.

There's nothing egregiously bad about "White Line Fever", it's a decent trucker movie about standing up against corruption and includes a few good stunts and fights, but the end result is just a very ordinary movie.