Before Smokey & the Bandit

 Convoy

                                                                      White Line Fever

To many viewers films such as Smokey & the Bandit, and Convoy started the craze for trucking movies. Years before these I saw a film in Southampton, UK called White Line Fever. The star was a young Jon Voight, who would later play in the classic Deliverance with Burt Reynolds.

Talking of Burt Reynolds, and lost films, I have been trying to track the film Hooper, a film about stuntmen. In the cast is his friend, and fellow stuntman, Hal Needham, who directed Smokey.