Convoy (1978)
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
After a brawl with a crooked sheriff at an Arizona truck stop, a trucker leads a growing convoy of rigs east across New Mexico and into Texas.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Desert highway≈ 00:01:00ArizonaStated on screen
Rubber Duck and two fellow truckers are tricked over the CB and shaken down by Sheriff Wallace.
- 2Rafael's Glide-In truck stop, Arizona (fictional)≈ 00:08:00Stated on screenFictional
A brawl with Wallace and state troopers at the diner sends the truckers fleeing for the state line, with Melissa riding along.
- 3Running the roadblocks≈ 00:25:00New MexicoStated on screen
The convoy swells, dodges police roadblocks and Rubber Duck meets the governor of New Mexico.
- 4Jail≈ 01:15:00Alvarez, Texas (fictional)Stated on screenFictional
- 5Border bridge over the Rio Grande (fictional)≈ 01:35:00InferredFictional
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 1,339 km
- Places
- 5
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 5
- Truck: 1,339 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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