davexxx
Sep 15, 2009, 11:42 AM
I am a 54 year old Brit now living in USA. When I was a kid I saw a movie on British TV, probably black and white, and maybe from 50’s or early sixties. I’d regard it as in a similar genre to “The Wages Of Fear”, probably a B-movie. The story – a concept unknown to this Brit – involved private gangs of combine harvesters that provided harvesting services to farmers who didn’t own their own combine harvesters. Thus they would drive around the country from one ‘gig’ to another. The one and only scene that I remember is where ‘Gang A’ are driving their convoy of flat-bed trucks carrying their huge combine harvesters to a new job, but being followed a mile or two back by a rival ‘Gang B’ that hopes to catch up, stop them, and steal their contract. While they are still on the move up a mountain road, Our Hero (actor unknown, sorry) climbs to the back of the leading truck and beckons the next truck to get up-close, then jumps on to it. He continues this through all the trucks in the convoy until reaching the back one, where he breaks the chains holding its combine harvester to release it to crash onto the road, blocking the path of the oncoming Gang B. I had a feeling it had a title something like ‘The Big Country’, but of course THAT is another movie entirely. Can anyone identify this movie from this one scene?