Truck Turner (1974) Reviews

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Isaac Hayes puts his gun where his groove is in his role as hard-case bounty hunter Mack "Truck" Turner, three years after composing the legendary score for Shaft (1971). Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when he's hired to capture sociopathic pimp Gator (Paul Harris), he finds himself confronted by the most vicious killers in the underground scene. Little does Turner know that Gator's woman, Dorinda (Nichelle Nichols), has a deep-running cold streak of vengeance, and has hired ruthless hit man Harvard Blue (Yaphet Kotto), as well as a legion of other like-minded and equally determined assassins, to snuff out Truck's supercharged motor once and for all. It's now up to Truck to keep his cool long enough to get to the source of the seemingly endless stream of bullets that come at increasingly unsettling intervals. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Director(s):: Jonathan Kaplan

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: R

Format(s):: DVD
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Following the success of his Oscar winning soundtrack for "Shaft", the record label decided to put the Big Brutha of Soul in his own butt-kicking Blacksploitation action flick... and to good effect, I must say! "Truck Turner" is a stand out among the dozens of ultra-low budget Blacksploitation films of the 70's and doesn't let up in the action and gun play categories. However, even with a principal cast of talented stars, the shining performance came from Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura of the original Star Trek series) as a hard talking brothel madam with a ten foot tall attitude. And good Lord is she hot! No wonder Captain Kirk couldn't wait to get a bite of that! The only thing I was disappointed in was the lack of originality in the soundtrack which was, of course, composed by Hayes himself. It sounds a whole lot like "Shaft", but it did lend a lot to the tone of the movie. Anyway, I think you're on the right track if you're considering renting this classic flick.

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