Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie

For cineasts worldwide Sam Peckinpah is best known for his 1969 masterpiece The Wild Bunch. Yet for the general 'mainstream' audience, the film everybody seems to know when the name Peckinpah is mentioned, is Convoy, Peckinpah's biggest success at the box office. But the entertaining actioner that had turned out to be a commercial winner and a public favorite in fact had a very troubled production history.

• Mike SiegelDirector

• Kris KristoffersonSelf
• Ernest BorgnineSelf
• Ali MacGrawSelf