Truck Turner

Truck Turner
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJonathan Kaplan
Screenplay by
Story byJerry Wilkes
Produced by
Starring
Music byIsaac Hayes
Production
company
Sequoia Pictures
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
  • June 26, 1974 (1974-06-26)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2.23 million[1][2]

Truck Turner, also known as Black Bullet,[3] is a 1974 American blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Leigh Chapman (under a pseudonym, Jerry Wilkes), and Oscar Williams. Hayes also scored the music for the soundtrack.[4] The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Foxy Brown.

  1. ^ Samuel Z Arkoff & Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants, Birch Lane Press, 1992 p 206
  2. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 301. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
  3. ^ "Truck Turner (1974) - IMDb". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2013-08-18. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  4. ^ Ignoring the Obvious By Bob Thomas. The Washington Post and Times-Herald (1959–1973) [Washington, D.C] 26 Dec 1973: D13.