Truck Turner

Truck Turner is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Jerry Wilkes and Oscar Williams. Isaac Hayes also scored the music for the soundtrack.

Synopsis

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 bail-jumping pimp in Los Angeles, California. After a shootout where Truck has to use deadly force to kill the pimp, Turner becomes a marked man and is targeted by hired assassins.

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
• Tara Strohmeier — Turnpike

Release on DVD & HD

• In 2001 it was released on DVD.
• In 2010 it was digitized in High Definition (1080i) and broadcast on MGM HD.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for Truck Turner was composed by Isaac Hayes. Although many regard it as Shaft's equal composition-wise, the soundtrack never managed to reach the mass popularity of the Shaft soundtrack, mainly due to the financial decline of stax records and was originally released on a double record album on vinyl which are mostly found in the "bargain bins." However, in 1993, it was released in a double-CD album alongside Hayes' other lesser-known soundtrack for the movie "Three Tough Guys" and again released on its own CD in 2002.

Tracklist:

1. "Main Title Truck Turner"
2. "House Of Beauty"
3. "Blues Crib"
4. "Driving In The Sun"
5. "Breakthrough"
6. "Now We're One"
7. "The Duke"
8. "Dorindas Party"
9. "Pursuit Of The Pimpmobile"
10. "We Need Each Other Girl"
11. "A House Full Of Girls"
12. "Hospital Shoutout"
13. "You're In My Arms Again"
14. "Give It To Me"
15. "Drinking"
16. "The Insurance Company"
17. "End Theme"

External links

• Truck Turner at the Internet Movie Database
• Truck Turner at AllRovi
• Truck Turner at Rotten Tomatoes