Truck Turner (1974)
Actors:
Julie Pitkanen (miscellaneous crew),
Isaac Hayes (composer),
Michael Kahn (editor),
Dick Miller (actor),
Henry Kingi (actor),
Fred Weintraub (producer),
John Dennis (actor),
Nichelle Nichols (actress),
Scatman Crothers (actor),
Yaphet Kotto (actor),
Charles Cyphers (actor),
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor),
Isaac Hayes (actor),
David Sheldon (miscellaneous crew),
Don Megowan (actor),
Plot: Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry and she puts a hit on Truck. The man who agrees to kill Truck is named Blue. The question is whether Truck can survive with Blue and his gang on his trail.
Keywords: african-american, ambush, bald, bald-hero, bald-man, bar, bare-breasts, black-american, black-hero, blaxploitation
Genres:
Action,
Crime,
Thriller,
Taglines: Black, bold and bloody mean!
Quotes:
Harvard Blue: Be cool, pussy.
Harvard Blue: Turner's like a bulldog with eyes up his ass!
Dorinda: We call her Turnpike, cuz you gotta pay to get on and pay to get off!
Annie: So, this is your idea of a good night, huh. Get me drunk and then screw me.::Truck Turner: Okay, okay, we'll get something to eat first.
Dorinda: Those two bitches that left - they had better learn to sell pussy in Iceland because if I ever see them again I'm gonna cut their fuckin' throats! We are family... and that's what we're gonna stay. Now I got important business out there today. And when I call you, I want you to come out there and shake your asses proper! You hear? Hah? Now get out there and make it look good! And Raquel, take that fuckin' jacket off! Move it!"
Dorinda: [referencing Taffy] Her clients call her Colonel Sanders because she's finger lickin' good.
Truck Turner: You Dorinda?::Dorinda: Who want to know?::Truck Turner: Since I'm asking, it must be me.
Dorinda: You don't look like cops, but you smell like trouble.::Truck Turner: Trouble, me? If I was, I wouldn't stand a chance with you, Mama.
Jerry: You didn't get shit!::Truck Turner: Just follow the bouncing ball, nigger.
Truck Turner: Anybody ask you what happened, tell 'em you been hit by a truck: Mac 'Truck' Turner!