Truck Turner
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Truck Turner | |
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Directed by | Jonathan Kaplan |
Produced by | Paul M. Heller Fred Weintraub |
Written by | Michael Allin Jerry Wilkes Oscar Williams |
Starring | Isaac Hayes Yaphet Kotto |
Music by | Isaac Hayes |
Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release date(s) | April 19, 1974 |
Running time | 91 minutes |
Language | English |
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Truck Turner is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Johnathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Jerry Wilkes and Oscar Williams.
[edit] Synopsis
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Truck Turner (portrayed by Isaac Hayes) is a former professional football player who becomes a bounty hunter (along with his partner Jerry) in search of a pimp in Los Angeles, California. After a tragic accident (where Truck uses deadly force where the alleged pimp is killed and his friend is stabbed by a prostitute), Turner becomes a marked man by the a hired assassin.
[edit] Cast
- Isaac Hayes — Mack Truck Turner
- Yaphet Kotto — Harvard Blue
- Alan Weeks — Jerry
- Annazette Chase — Annie
- Nichelle Nichols — Dorinda
- Sam Laws — Nate
- Paul Harris — Richard Leroy Johnson
- Charles Cyphers — Drunk
- John Kramer — Desmond
- Scatman Crothers — Duke
- Dick Miller — Fogarty
- Bob Harris — Snow
- Jac Emil — Reno
- Stan Shaw — Fontana
- Wendell Tucker — Wendell
- Earl Maynard — Panama