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Released
1978 · FILM

Convoy

Rubber Duck, a maverick trucker, rallies his CB‑linked crew into a massive road convoy to outsmart a cunning sheriff’s radio tricks and keep the highways free—risking a high‑speed showdown with relentless police pursuit.

Ain't nothin' gonna get in their way!

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Written by
Runtime
110 min
ActionDrama

Synopsis

Trucker Rubber Duck, along with his companions Pig Pen, Widow Woman, and Spider Mike, uses their CB radios to alert each other to the presence of police. However, cunning Sheriff Wallace is aware of the truckers' methods and starts deceiving the drivers through his own CB transmissions. Faced with ongoing pressure from law enforcement, Rubber Duck and his associates use their radios to organize a large convoy and take control of the roads.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Garth CravenShot by Harry Stradling JrScored by Chip DavisDesigned by Fernando Carrere

Box Office

1978 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$45.0M

Budget$12.0M
Worldwide gross$45.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $22.8M 51% of worldwide · International: $22.2M (49%)

Also known as

  • Convoyes
  • Le Convoifr
  • Convoy - Trincea d'asfaltoit

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