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White Line Fever: Directed by Jonathan Kaplan. With Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones. In 1970s Arizona, a young married man becomes an independent long-haul driver and he risks his life fighting the corruption in the local long-haul trucking industry.
Reviews. White Line Fever. 90 minutes ‧ 1975. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1975. 3 min read. Carrol Jo Hummer gets out of the service with his eyes practically shining at the glory of his dream: He'll buy his own semitrailer and become that pillar of free enterprise, the independent owner-operator.
White Line Fever is a 1975 Canadian-American action crime neo-noir film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Jan-Michael Vincent. Plot. Sam Hummer is a local truck driver from Tucson, Arizona who works for a Tucson-based produce-shipper called "Red River". His driving partners are Duane Haller and "Pops" Dinwiddie.
Co-staring Slim Pickens, R.G. Armstrong, Dick Miller, and Martin "Sweep the Leg" Kove, "White Line Fever" is super fun hixploitaiton with good ol boys cussin', fighting' and driving big...
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User Reviews. This is gritty 70's B-movie action at its best. The CB radio craze was at its height when this movie first came out (I saw it on a double bill with "Jaws" at an outdoor)and the country was fascinated by the lives of long distance truckers.
White Line Fever has the makings of an Elmore Leonard story, with Dixie Mafia types harassing an everyman protagonist… Review by HKFanatic ★★★★ Pure populist cinema.
Aug 14, 2020 · Even better, White Line Fever is a terrific film that made a lot of money for Columbia Pictures and helped to ensure that Kaplan's career would continue for a while.
