TRUCKER’S WOMAN (1975) * ½

Mike Kelly (Michael Hawkins) is an honest hardworking trucker.  When Mike’s father, who is also a trucker, dies under mysterious circumstances, he begins doing some digging.  He also starts to organize the truckers, which makes his crooked boss nervous.  He gets Mike busted on phony charges, but with the help of a concerned detective, he sets out to solve his father’s murder and put a stop to the company’s illegal operations.

Oh, have you noticed how I haven’t even mentioned the trucker’s woman yet?  That’s because the bulk of Trucker’s Woman is devoted to a lot of boring trucker drama.  Hawkins spends most of his time butting heads with The Man and trying to stamp out corruption.  It’s not exactly the Good Ol’ Boy flick you would like it to be as the car chases are minimal and what action we do get is poorly staged.

I guess we should spend a LITTLE time talking about the trucker’s woman in Trucker’s Woman.  She’s played by Mary Cannon, who seems like an engaging enough actress.  At first, it looks like she’s going to be just another sexy blonde in a red sports car, but she proves to be more than a match for Hawkins.  Her best scene comes when she strands him in a parking lot nude.  Since Hawkins isn’t much of a hero, that makes Cannon by far the best performer in the movie.  Her scenes are the most memorable, even if her character arc is completely predictable.

Overall, there just aren’t enough exploitation thrills here to live up to the title.  We get a few sex and shower scenes, but not there’s not nearly enough skin to make up for the dreary, slow moving plot.  To make matters worse, Doodles Weaver provides the awful comic relief and drags down just about every scene he’s in.

AKA:  Truckin’ Man.