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- Title
- White Line Fever
- AKA
- --
- Year of Film
- 1975
- Director
- Jonathan Kaplan
- Starring
- Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Sam Laws, Don Porter, R.G. Armstrong, Leigh French, Johnny Ray McGhee, Dick Miller, Martin Kove, Jamie Anderson
- Origin of Film
- Canada | USA
- Type of Poster
- One sheet
- Style of Poster
- Style B
- Origin of Poster
- USA
- Year of Poster
- 1975
- Designer
- Unknown
- Artist
- Unknown
- Size (inches)
- 27 2/16" x 41"
- SS or DS
- SS
- NSS #
- 75/158
- Tagline
- Carol Jo Hummer - A working man who's had enough!
White Line Fever (opens in a new tab) was made during the heyday of trucking in American popular culture and tells the story of Vietnam veteran Carol Jo-Hummer (played by Jan-Michael Vincent (opens in a new tab)) who returns from the war and takes over his father’s trucking business, only to run up against the corrupt shipping firm Red River who are a front for an organised crime gang. Kay Lenz (opens in a new tab) stars as Carol’s sweetheart Jerri who awaited his return from Vietnam and eventually helps him take a stand against the gang.
It would later be followed by other trucking-based action films such as the Burt Reynolds mega hit Smokey and the Bandit (opens in a new tab) (1977) and Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy (opens in a new tab) (1978). Director Jonathan Kaplan (opens in a new tab) would go on to direct Jodie Foster to an Oscar win in 1988’s The Accused (opens in a new tab).
This style B US one sheet depicts a moment from one of the climactic scenes in the film and I’m unsure who is responsible for the artwork so please get in touch if you have any ideas.
The original trailer is on YouTube (opens in a new tab).
