An aw-shucks truck driver (Robert Blake) escaping bill collectors meets up with a Beverly Hills woman (Dyan Cannon) who has just run away from a mental institution. They hop in a truck and head cross-country. Their misadventures include chases, women wrestling in a pigsty, making love in the snow, fisticuffs and—as a finale—crashing a semi into a mansion. This trucking variation of an overworked plot (man meets woman in bizarre circumstances, with affection blossoming out of adversity) would make a fabulous half-hour TV episode. But it's a long haul strung out for 95 minutes and costing five bucks. The movie bears more than coincidental resemblance to box office boffo Smokey and the Bandit. Although Blake and Cannon are charming and attractive, director Joseph (Mac Arthur) Sargent can't compete effectively with Smokey's Hal Needham merely by imitating him. (PG)
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