Trucker's Woman

Trucker's Woman (also released as Truckin' Man) is a 1975 action film directed by Will Zens and starring Michael Hawkins as a middle-aged man who drops out of college to go undercover as a truck driver in order to solve the mysterious murder of his trucker father.

Trucker's Woman
Theatrical poster[1]
Directed byWill Zens[2]
Produced byW. Henry Smith
Written byJoseph A. Alvarez
W. Henry Smith
StarringMichael Hawkins
Mary Cannon
Peggy Linville
Phil Smoot
Doodles Weaver
Music byBobby Atkins
Charles Jeffords
Jackie Jeffords
Wayne Jeffords
Dan Knight
Allan M. Miller
Jerry Shinn
W. Henry Smith[2]
CinematographyDarrell Cathcart[2]
Distributed byPreacherman Corporation
Super Pix[3]
Release date
  • May 1975 (1975-05)[1]
Running time
81 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Production

The film was shot over three weeks in November 1974 in Florence and Society Hill, South Carolina.[4][5]

Release

The film was originally called Truckin' Man, and was screened under that title for the first six months of its theatrical release (appearing on a double bill with Hot Summer in Barefoot County). The distributor felt that changing it to Trucker's Woman would result in higher box office returns.[4][6]

Home media

One of the home media distributors[6][7] was Troma Entertainment, in 1983 on videocassette. The cover of this release (below), featured new photography of models not resembling the actual actors in the film.[8]

Legacy

In 2018, the film was subject to a comedic running commentary by RiffTrax's Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett.[9]

Besides being infamous as a Z movie, Trucker's Woman is also known for the mysterious, random image of a pepperoni pizza lying on a wooden deck that appears for a single frame in the middle of a brake line checking scene, at 1:08:38 (or 1:00:51 in the RiffTrax version, which, based on the shorter runtime and lack of R-rated material, seems to be based on a television edit[9]). Due to the vignetting effect which was applied to it, it appears that the insertion of this frame was not accidental, but rather was an attempt to subliminally influence audiences to buy pizza (e.g. from drive-in theater concession stands).

Cover of Troma's 1983 VHS release of the film
Subliminal pizza frame

See also

References
  1. "Trucker's Woman". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  2. "Trucker's Woman (1975) - Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  3. "Trucker's Woman (1975) - Company credits". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  4. "Trucker's Woman (1975) - Trivia". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  5. "Trucker's Woman (1975) - Filming & Production". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  6. "Trucker's Woman (1975) - Photo Gallery - 4 of 4". Retrieved 2019-10-21. Truckers [sic] Woman […] Paragon Video Productions
  7. "TRUCKER'S WOMAN | Troma". troma.com. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  8. "Trucker's Woman". RiffTrax. 2018-11-02. Retrieved 2019-10-21.


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