White Line Fever

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.