Watching Convoy, it feels like a lifelong Peckinpah admirer shot a fairly meaningless commercial trucker flick as a tribute to his idol, and that Peckinpah wasn’t even involved at all – and that’s almost literally what actually happened.
Hell, Peckinpah was even fired midway through the editing process, and the film was recut and rescored without his approval. Running over-schedule and over-budget, with cocaine, alcohol and subsequent health problems stifling his art, and with long-time collaborator James Coburn drafted in to shoot half of the footage himself, the film ended up losing to the massively successful, similarly-themed 1977 flick, Smokey and the Bandit, which hit cinemas before Convoy was even completed (although not before it was due to be completed).
It doesn’t feel like a Peckinpah movie, it doesn’t look like a Peckinpah movie and, whatever strand of sense he wanted to make of the pathetic script simply does not come across in the finished product.
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