White Line Fever

 Trucking Movies

Before Smokey & the Bandit

Trucking Movies

Many years before Smokey & the Bandit, and Convoy made trucking movies a trend, I saw a film about truckers, in Southanpton, Hampshire, UK. That film was called White Line Fever, and its star was a young actor called Jon Voight.

For years, I tried to track the film down, but the price it costs is too high for one film.

To hog the trucking trend, Sylvester Stallone made a film called F.I.S.T., with Rod Stieger, both men and all the people who say the film call it trash. The premise is a group called the Federation of InterState Truckers fight off companies so they can control thier routes, and jobs.

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.