Sweetie pie kim darby recruits her to drive her husbands truck after an attempted hijacking results in an injured, bedridden breadwinner. Enjoy a rich lineup of tv shows and movies included with your prime. Lady truckers was first telecast february 10, 1979. Two women join forces to keep an expensive trucking rig out of the clutches of repossessors and hijackers.
Together with a remote friend of her husband, flatbed annie a trucker without a truck, she takes up trucking. Lady truckers, 1979, directed by robert greenwald, with annie potts, harry dean stanton, kim darby, at turner classic movies. Annie potts, harry dean stanton, kim darby, arthur godfrey, fred willard, billy carter, avery schreiber. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck. Godfrey was most recently credited in the comedy born romantic 2001 with craig ferguson.
By activating, you agree that you want to enable cloud technology to access your xfinity stream subscription on additional supported devices like computers and tablets, as well as the tv connected to your settop dvr via comcasts network. During these years, he additionally appeared in film, receiving a role in where angels go. Tv source for information on flatbed annie and sweetiepie. Its unfortunate that this genre died out do we blame maximum overdrive. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of the best movies ever made only at tcm. Television critic matt zoller seitz in his 2016 book cowritten with alan sepinwall titled tv the book named the burning bed as the 7th greatest american tvmovie of all time, writing that the film was a landmark in terms of content, depicting domestic violence as an unambiguous horror and a human rights violation. I couldnt resist picking up this obscure action adventure movie from the video store after seeing that title.
Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central. Lady truckers tv movie 1979 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The plot is further complicated by a gang of hijackers. Annie is a hardbitten veteran, sweetiepie a starryeyed novice. Each of the detailed ratings you select will result in a cumulative score for this film. Lady truckers by annie potts from amazons movies store.
Harry dean stanton costars as a mean, nasty, awful bad guy who wants to repossess the girls truck. This engaging madefortelevision movie follows the adventures of ginny sweetie pie larosa kim darby, who needs money after her trucker husband, jack fred willard, is shot by hijackers. With annie potts, harry dean stanton, kim darby, arthur godfrey. Lady truckers 1979 pg 02101979 us drama, action, comedy, tv movie 1h 40m. Fortunately, she finds a partner in flatbed annie annie potts, a freewheelin driver. Flatbed annie annie potts is a lovable manhating protolesbian who tosses around surly citizens band slang with serious style. A repo man played by harry dean stanton, who has a full bar set up in the front. Turner classic movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. Lady truckers stars anniepotts, kimdarby, harrydeanstanton the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min, and received a. Harry dean stanton 1 episode, 2004 the big bounce 2004 bob rogers, sr. Girls of the road united kingdom 1963 autocar a10264. Douglas harry dean stanton, a relentless repo man after the truck for missed payments.
Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. But, flatbed annie eventually helps out sweetiepie in what proves to be a pretty dangerous expedition. Annie potts, kim darby, harry dean stanton, arthur godfrey, rory calhoun, billy carter, avery schreiber. July 8, 1947 is an american actress best known for her role as mattie ross in the film true grit 1969. And they hoped that this thing would graduate into a weekly tv series, did they. After sweetiepies husband, who is a trucker, is wounded in a shootout, she has to think up some way to pay the rates for the superliner. The following is the complete filmography of american actor harry dean stanton july 14, 1926 september 15, 2017. So, she employs the help of sharped tongued trucker veteran, flatbed annie, who eventually becomes her partnerincrime actually, theyre not committing a crime, i just didnt know how else to phrase that. Born today most popular celebs most popular celebs celebrity news. Directed by robert greenwald, flatbed annie and sweetie pie lady truckers 1978, nr, actionadventure, 100 min. This madefortv movie reminds me a lot of corvette summer, a movie where good guys and bad guys chase a car all over town that one also features annie potts. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The meanings of the terms change from time to time and also vary from region to region.
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