Convoy (1978): How a Hit Song Became Sam Peckinpah's Biggest Hit

The Cinematic Flashback Podcast · Jul 30, 2026 · 49m · transcript

In this episode of The Cinematic Flashback, we review Sam Peckinpah's 1978 film Convoy, starring Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Borgnine, Ally MacGraw, Bert Young, Madge Sinclair, and Franklyn Ajaye. Inspired by C.W. McCall's chart-topping country hit, Convoy became the highest-grossing film of Peckinpah's career and captured the CB radio and trucking craze that swept America during the late 1970s.

We trace the film's unlikely journey from a series of bread commercials to a hit novelty song, then to a major Hollywood production directed by one of America's most influential filmmakers. Along the…