The Dryden will screen Convoy (Sam Peckinpah, U.S. 1978, 110 min., 35mm) as part of the Ernest Borgnine series.

On the short list of feature films based on popular songs—in this case C. W. McCall's CB-radio themed novelty hit "Convoy"—sam Peckinpah's rollicking, proudly lowbrow comedy adventure leads the pack. The blacktop meet-cute of Peckinpah veterans Kris Kristofferson (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) and Ali MacGraw (The Getaway) may be something out of a screwball comedy, but the film—about a convoy of interstate truckers on the run from a corrupt county sheriff (Ernest Borgnine)—is really a western in trucker drag. It's rumored that much of the second-unit direction was taken over by actor James Coburn due to Peckinpah's failing health. Ironically, the film was the most financially successful of Bloody Sam's career.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-Feb-20]