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Can anyone help me - please?

posted 18 years ago by Altho73
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I'm trying to remember the title of another trucking movie that I saw on TV in the 1970's, have kept a look out for it ever since but it has never reappeared.

It featured two men, called Joe and Harry and a girl transporting a truckload of furs on a long journey accross the country and many setbacks and delays hitting them along the way. It culminates in the truck getting stuck in mud and Harry uses some of the furs under the wheels to enable the wheels to grip. This annoys Joe who accuses him of wasting the load, a fight ensues and ends in several crates of furs falling on Joe and killing him. They deliver the load and the girl then offers some money to a woman (presumably Joe's wife).

I can't remember the names of any of the actors and I think the film was black and white. Can anyone help me please guys????

[–] wasp755000 18 years ago

It may have been The Long Haul from 1957:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050653/

[–] Altho73 18 years ago

Thanks wasp755000, I appreciate that. I've looked it up on imdb and yes it is definitely the film I was looking for.

Now another question, I have been searching for this film for many years and would like to see it again. Does anyone have or know where I could get a VHS video copy? Any assistance would be appreciated.

[–] wasp755000 18 years ago

It´s available at amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/long-haul-victor-mature/dp/B000675ZQG/ref=sr_1_5/102-1039818-4900951?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1174925157&sr=8-5

[–] dsfa2020 15 years ago

This is not really an answer to this query, which has already been answered, but I just wanted to mention another excellent trucker movie that folks here might enjoy - "Thieves Highway". Made at the other end of the forties from "They Drive By Night" the content is noticeably more mature.