CORN-VOY

CONVOY (1978)
dir: Sam Peckinpah

CORN-VOY
Game Volume 4 #9, circa 1978
w & a: Pete Davidson (?)

Not the comedian and Saturday Night Live cast member, unless he went back in time 20 years and moved to England.

As the blog comes to a close, it's inevitable a few odds and ends will trickle in. After I end with ZPG in a few weeks I'll be returning with things like this. First up is something from a British nudie magazine called Game.

Convoy was released at the height of the CB radio craze and the 'good old boy' film genre, and based on an earlier song. The movie is about about Rubber Duck (Kris Kristofferson) on the run from the law, fleeing across the country with Melissa (Ali McGraw) accompanied by an increasingly larger crowd of allies. A convoy, if you will.

You can tell they never saw the movie by how the actors' appearances are drawn from stock shots in other movies. Ali McGraw has short hair in the movie.

Steve McQueen wasn't in this. He was married to Ali McGraw in real life.

Jimmy Carter's mother Lillian a/k/a “Miss Lillian” was prominent in his presidential tenure.

This next one was a parody in Esquire's parody of MAD in their August 1964 issue.

M (1931)
dir: Fritz Lang

There's no byline for this MAD parody. Rumor has it that Harvey Kurtzman wrote it under a pseudonym. While it tracks that he was a frequent contributor to Esquire and upset about what happened to his creation, the angle seems to be that MAD is creating a generation of delinquents with its satire. Kurtzman's take would have been more of “not funny as it once was”, since even if he saw MAD after him as a watered-down version, he'd acknowledge it still had the same intent.

And the film here is about a child predator (Peter Lorre) pursued by police and the public. Alfred Kinsey, Charles DeGaulle, Liberace, Al Capone, and Tom Dewey weren't in it.