White Line Fever
White Line Fever is a 1975 film from the USA, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, running 92 minutes. reelscum files it under carsploitation and hicksploitation.
- Year
- 1975 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Director
- Jonathan Kaplan
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (41/100)
Defined in the glossary: Carsploitation, Hicksploitation
Trucker versus the cartel. Earnest, blue-collar, better than expected.
A young trucker returns home, refuses to haul contraband for the corrupt freight cartel that runs the region, and goes to war with them, and the film is an earnest, blue-collar revenge picture with more heart than the average carsploitation entry. Jan-Michael Vincent plays the everyman pushed too far.
Jonathan Kaplan directs it with genuine sympathy for working people crushed by rigged systems, and the truck-versus-establishment action delivers. It sits alongside the era's other populist-hero pictures with more sincerity than most.
Earnest, well-made, and better than its drive-in packaging suggests.
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