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Truck Turner
1972 Isaac Hayes
Teaser Storyline for Truck Turner
Two tough, modern-day bounty hunters, known in contemporary language as skip-tracers, Truck Turner (ISAAC HAYES) and his partner Jerry (ALAN WEEKS), wind up a rough assignment capturing a child-molester for their employer Nate (SAM LAWS), the bail-bondsman. Their plans for a well-earned rest are interrupted by Fogarty (DICK MILLER), another bondsman whose erstwhile client Gator (PAUL HARRIS), pimp, strong-arm man and a three-time loser, has skipped leaving Fogarty bankrupt if he's not apprehended.
Accepting the assignment reluctantly, but at a much higher-than-normal fee, Truck and Jerry set out to comb the underworld jungles for their prey. They encounter immediate resistance and active opposition from Gator's top girl, Dorinda (NICHELLE NICHOLS). To get a line on the elusive Gator, Truck turns for help to an old friend, retired pimp Duke (SCATMAN CROTHERS), who informs him of antagonism between Gator and Harvard Blue (YAPHET KOTTO), suave head of organized crime in the city.
In the ensuing hunt and exciting chase Gator is killed and, in revenge, Dorinda takes
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a contract on Truck's life with Harvard Blue, offering herself and her stable of girls as a reward.
Truck manages to elude or overcome every local killer sent after him and is in seclusion, enjoying life with his girl Annie (ANNAZETTE CHASE), an habitual shoplifter whom he is trying to rehabilitate. In desperation, Blue sends for some highly professional killers from out of town. They manage, through dint of torture, to arrange an ambush for Truck in Nate's office. Intoxicated and temporarily unable to respond, Truck, recognizing the urgency in Nate's voice, gets Jerry to answer the call and to hold the fort till he can get there.
When Truck does arrive on the scene he finds the lifeless body of his partner, and Nate nearly dead from the beating he has sustained. Truck Turner then becomes a cold, deadly machine, bent on vengeance. He causes Annie to be framed on a shoplifting charge, feeling that she will be safer in jail. Then he ruthlessly sets out on a trail of elimination which eventually leads him to Harvard Blue and Dorinda.
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CAST
Truck Turner .......................... Isaac Hayes
Harvard Blue .......................... Yaphet Kotto
Jerry .......................... Alan Weeks
Annie .......................... Annazette Chase
Dorinda .......................... Nichelie Nichols
Nate .......................... Sam Laws
Gator .......................... Paul Harris
Desmond .......................... John Kramer
Duke .......................... Scatman Crothers
Drunk .......................... Chuck Cyphers
Fogarty .......................... Dick Miller
Snow .......................... Bob Harris
Reno .......................... Jac Emil
Fontana .......................... Stan Shaw
Toro .......................... Clarence Barnes
Val .......................... Don Watters
Druggist .......................... Eddie Smith
Black Momma .......................... Esther Sutherland
Panama .......................... Earl Maynard
Candy Man .......................... Henry Kingi
Travis .......................... Larry Gabriel
Garrity .......................... Don Megowan
Taffy .......................... Cheryl Samson
Frenchie .......................... Edna Richardson
Rocquel .......................... Bernadette Gladden
Turnpike .......................... Tara Stronmeier
Annette .......................... Lisa Farringer
Nurse .......................... Sharon Madigan
Doctor .......................... Mel Novak
Highway Dept. Man .......................... Donnie Williams
Kid In Hospital .......................... Randy Gray
Stalingrad .......................... Annik Borel
Jail Guard .......................... Stymie Beard
Samuel Z. Arkoff Presents
A Fred Weintraub-Paul Heller Production
Produced By .......................... Fred Weintraub, Paul Heller
Directed By .......................... Jonathan Kaplan
Associate Producer .......................... Marty Hornstein
Production Executive .......................... Elliot Schick
Screenplay By .......................... Oscar Williams, Michael Allin
Story By .......................... Jerry Wilkes
Director Of Photography .......................... Charles F. Wheeler
Assistant To The Producers .......................... Jeff Schechtman
2Nd Assistant Director .......................... Tony Brand
Location Manager .......................... Nicole Scott
Camera Operator .......................... Ron Vargas
1St Assistant Cameraman .......................... Jim Luske
Sound Mixer .......................... Darin Knight
Film Editor .......................... Michael Kahn, A.C.E.
Make-Up .......................... Marvin Westmore
Production Assistant .......................... Ron Windred
Script Supervisor .......................... Julie Pithanen
Gaffer .......................... Don Scott
Key Grip .......................... Chuck Record
Costume Designer .......................... Ann Mccarthy
Unit Publicist .......................... Julian F. Myers
Music Composed And Performed By Isaac Hayes
Original Sound Track Album On Enterprise Records, A Subsidiary Of Stax Records
Running Time: 91 Mm.
Aspect Ratio: 1 :85
Rating: R
Color By: Movielab
An American International Picture
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