Inferno no Asfalto

So I said "It better not end like this" and it did, a very disappointing end but towards the finish of the movie you could see the directors panic as he struggled to find an ending so I was aware that a 'bail out' was on the cards. To be fair even I half way through the movie I thought how on Earth are they going to end this.

A unique trucker movie inasmuch as Trucker movies are usually a lot lighter this has some very dark and heavy moments which in turn keeps the viewer unsettled which is only a good thing in an action drama.

But the Director needs to look up the word 'Revenge' in a dictionary or at least ask Charles Bronson (Once upon a time in the west) how it's done.

The entire cast put in a good performance and the script and pacey direction keep things moving. JMV was great.

Plus some nice old seventies American Trucks.

This came out with the CB fad and is really a vintage film now. Is it a classic? Well, the truck driving scenes are classic. The other stuff like the plot and ending are apparently fabricated just so we could have a place for the great action. Where else can you see someone climb from the cab of a moving truck onto the van trailer's roof? Where else can you see a semi hit a bobtail truck tractor in the tandems and spin it off the road? Where else can you see a diesel truck burn? Where else can you see a truck tractor jump through the air? Jan-Michael Vincent shows us he can actually back a semi to a loading dock, too. White Line Fever gets the point across that truck driving is a great way of life. Then why was it so hard for him to make a living at it? Couldn't he just sign up with Mayflower Van Lines or something?

The director Jonathan Kaplan also signs this hideous screenplay aimed for suckers and less enlightened concerning the harder life of truck drivers, I coming from a long generation of these tough road workers, I know how it works, this picture tries by all means establish a clash between the powerful ones against the poorest truck drivers, what world they living anyway? There are not any matter between them that the movie tried hard implied, as not mentioned regarding the low pricing of shipment should be the main matter, whereof never was allowed to argue on the far-fetched plot.

I saw the glorious and classic Blue Mule in great shape, another fabulous trucks appears on the picture, what brute ones, a breathtaking and might Arizona landscape portraits on movie including rarely seen a snowy monument valley, worthwhile see for it plenty, however the plot looks like a three dollar bill as cited in my title review, what a wasting of gift actors as the Slim Pickens well portraits as true Arizona's boss, the womanizer L. Q. Jones, the skinny Kay Lens, the amusing joke teller Sam Laws and the forthcoming star Jan Michael Vincent, a bit naïve guy who bursts the GH's sign on glass tower headquarter, aside Convoy that is really is emblematic trucks movie, White Line Fever is among the best as action picture only, forget the contrived and phony storyline.

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First watch: 1984 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.

My dad took me to see this movie in the theater in 1975. I was around 7 years old. I guess I remember it most because it was one of the first movies my dad took me to see. It is definitely a tough guys movie. The violence portrayed in the film stayed with me for years. Especially the scene where Slim Pickens is thrown in front of a speeding semi truck. I've seen the movie many times on television since 1975 and have grown to appreciate it more. Not being close to the trucking industry, I don't know how accurate a picture it paints for today, but I believe it hits pretty close for 1975.

This film catapulted Jan-Michael Vincent to stardom level for awhile, and contained a lot of good, exciting action scenes as well as politically correct assessment of some of the problems of independent truckers at the time. Of course, it contained some action and fighting scenes that are somewhat unbelievable, but in the context of the story, they work. Kay Lenz is the believable, not too lovely hero's wife who downplayed her attractiveness displayed in later films. There are lots of eye-pleasing shots of trucks and highway mayhem, and, of course, from a trucker and real-life perspective, lots of technically inaccurate scenes, but, all in all one of the very best trucking movies ever made -- and I've seen 'em all! Good cast, good flick. This $2 million film went on to be a big grosser.