Truck Turner is a 1974 blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Jerry Wilkes and Oscar Williams. Isaac Hayes also scored the music for the soundtrack. Truck Turner is a former professional football player who becomes a bounty hunter in search of a bail-jumping pimp in Los Angeles, California. After a shootout where Truck has to use deadly force to kill the pimp, Turner becomes a marked man and is targeted by hired assassins. The soundtrack for Truck Turner was composed by Isaac Hayes. Although... many regard it as Shaft's equal composition-wise, the soundtrack never managed to reach the mass popularity of the Shaft soundtrack, mainly due to the financial decline of stax records and was originally released on a double record album on vinyl which are mostly found in the "bargain bins." However, in 1993, it was released in a double-CD album alongside Hayes' other lesser-known soundtrack for the movie "Three Tough Guys" and again released on its own CD in 2002.
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| Release date: | April 19, 1974 |
| Directed by: | Jonathan Kaplan |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 91 Minutes |
| Producer: | Paul Heller, Fred Weintraub |
| Music by: | Isaac Hayes |
| Screenplay by: | Jerry Wilkes, Oscar Williams, Michael Allin |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |