In 2010, it was digitized in High Definition (1080i) and broadcast on MGM HD.The film holds a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on five reviews. Truck Turner received a mixed to positive critical reception. "Larry Gordon at AIP said, "Well, we can't get any of them so now it's a black picture." Isaac Hayes was cast and that's how that came about." Reception Kaplan says the film was written for Lee Marvin, Robert Mitchum, or Ernest Borgnine. And then, it became a blaxloitation film … about pimps and whores, right? I don’t think any of that was in my script and I’m not sure why I even received a story credit. He doesn’t want you on the project anyway. Chapman later recalled, "I remember going into the office and, with my usual insouciance? arrogance? announced that, in that case, I wasn’t going to do any freebie re-writes. It was bought by Fred Weintraub who was in partnership with Larry Gordon. The film started as a script by Leigh Chapman about a caucasian bounty hunter. Paul Harris as Richard Leroy "Gator" Johnson.
They drive off together, leaving LA for good. All of his belongings are packed in the car, and he promises he will go away with her, right away, if she takes him back. Truck makes up with Annie as she gets out of jail. Truck confronts Dorinda and more goons at her house, and kills her when she reaches for a gun. Blue dies a few minutes later in the driver's seat of his car. Truck gives Nate Jerry's gun for protection, and then they shoot Blue's goons when they burst in. Truck frames Annie for shoplifting, and the police arrest her. Truck does not feel sober enough after a night of partying, so he calls Jerry, who dies in Blue's ambush. Blue's men force Nate to call Truck and tell him that there is a big job. When Blue points out that Dorinda will not be able to deal with Truck, they agree to share the cost of getting rid of Truck, and Blue will take over more control of Gator's stable. Truck survives several ambushes by Blue's goons. The only pimp interested in the violence is Harvard Blue (Kotto). Dorinda offers Gator's competing pimps a deal: whoever kills Truck gets to replace Gator while she runs the stable. A tip from Truck's friend Duke ( Scatman Crothers) allows them to locate Gator again, and kill Gator when he attempts to shoot Truck.ĭorinda threatens Gator's former whores to keep them in line. Truck and Jerry wait for Gator to visit, and chase him, but Gator escapes. The two visit Dorinda ( Nichelle Nichols), who runs Gator's stable of prostitutes. Truck and his partner Jerry Barnes go to collect their bounty from Nate Dinwiddie, a bail bondsman, who refers them to Fogarty ( Dick Miller), a bail bondsman after a pimp who skipped bail named Gator. Truck visits his girlfriend, Annie ( Annazette Chase), who is in jail and wants to leave LA when released.
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Mack "Truck" Turner (Hayes) is a former professional football player who becomes a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter after an injury.
The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Foxy Brown. Hayes also scored the music for the soundtrack. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Leigh Chapman (under a pseudonym, Jerry Wilkes), and Oscar Williams. Truck Turner, also known as Black Bullet, is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan.
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