Breaker! Breaker!

Plot synopsis:
J.D. (Chuck Norris), a trucker from California, returns from the road to learn that an old friend was assaulted and paralyzed by Sergeant Strode (Don Gentry), a policeman in Texas City, California. He makes inquiries into Texas City and learns that its policemen Strode and Deputy Boles (Ron Cedillos) have a history of "trapping" truckers for a corrupt judge running various rackets in the so-called "City".
When his younger brother Billy (Michael Augenstein) begins working as a trucker, J.D. warns him to stay away from Texas City. But Billy is easily fooled by an officer (Strode) on a CB radio, who pretends he's a fellow trucker.
After Billy disappears, J.D. sets out in search of him. He goes to Texas City and barges in on a city council meeting, wherein Trimmings' stooges boast of their booties. He befriends a waitress, a single mother, working at a diner which overcharges outsiders. After getting into a fight with the owner of the local wrecking yard and accidentally killing him, J.D. is arrested and sentenced to death by Judge Trimmings.
J.D.'s girlfriend tells his fellow truckers what's happened via CB radio. They come to rescue J.D. and Billy and tear the town down.

Tags: violence

Review:
This movie is like 84 minutes of straight up C.B. Radio porn for the Smokey And The Bandit / Convoy / Cannonball crowd, as it typifies the country-music-infused blue-collar-trucker sub-genre of movies that peaked in the late 1970's.
But this film is more notable to me because it is Chuck Norris' debut in a starring role.
D. Dawes, yet another one of your average 'martial arts truck drivers' who's little brother Billy is essentially held hostage by an entire town while making his first solo run as a big-rig driver himself.
Well typical of all other Chuck Norris films for the next 30 years, what happens then is obvious; J.
This film is nowhere near as entertaining or fast paced as Norris' 1980's Cannon fare, rather the action here is sparse and the acting plain bad.
Chuck Norris comes to town looking for his brother who has been brutalized by a bunch of crooked redneck jerks.
This is Chuck at his best and ranks right up there with Lone Wolf McQuade and Forced Vengeance as one of the very best butt kicking shows out there in movie land.
has Chuck Norris as a truck driver and a karate master, talk about juggling two disparate careers.
He gives a load he can't deliver to his younger brother Michael Augenstein and then when the young man doesn't show up, Chuck goes looking for him.What young Augenstein has got himself into is a speed-trap run by Judge George Murdock who comes from the Roy Bean school of jurisprudence.
Of course Norris deals with matters in the usual Chuck Norris way and when he gets in trouble, the call goes out over the CB for all the truckers to come and help their good buddy.
This speed-trap known as Texas City has a bad reputation and the drivers are only too happy to help a pal.Chuck's of course quite a bit younger and with no facial hair in this one.
George Murdock is overacting outrageously as the Judge Roy Bean wannabe.This one is strictly for the fans of Chuck Norris..
Hell no, it gets a 9 for being the funniest so-bad-it's-good movie of all time.
I don't think I've ever laughed harder at a movie and it stays just as funny every time I watch it.
It should be under comedy.Everybody knows that Chuck Norris can't act to save is life but in this movie, none of the actors can.
There he made several low budget movies which led to his most memorable confrontation with the legendary Bruce Lee. In this film called " Breaker, Breaker " Norris plays John Dawes who's younger brother Billy (Michael Augenstein) a trucker has been arrested, jailed, kidnapped and presumed killed, at the whim of corrupt Judge Joshua Trimmings (George Murdock).
Ever want to see a movie where Chuck Norris takes the bad guys aside and calmly discusses with them the errors of their ways until they see the light and, with tears in their eyes, they shake hands, right the wrongs of the world together in peace and harmony and forever end the reign of evil in the world?Well, forget it, Jocko.
Breaker!" instead goes right for the drop-kick as our truck-drivin' man Chuck steers his big rig into the small backwoods town where his little brother is being held by a corrupt judge and his even-more corrupt law-men.
norris in it but also because there are a lot of situations in the movie although slightly hollywooded for the audience are true to what truckers in the seventies and today still face..
Of course, the film is supposed to be an action/drama but turned out as a treatise on how NOT to make a movie.
was Chuck Norris' first American-made movie in which he had a leading role.
This ultra-low budget flick has a clean-shaven Chuck playing a truck driver searching for his lost brother in a corrupt town run by an even more corrupt judge.
While this isn't one of Chuck's best films, it is worth a watch for diehard Norris fans.
I have to admit I love watching Chuck beat up bad guys and this movie delivers the goods.
Ok with this film there are  a number of ingredients at work:First put in loads of hillbilly truckers--good ole boys who have secret desire to take law into own hands.
Third put in karate fighting trucker played by Chuck Norris.
Fifth show Chuck Norris fighting in slow motion.Now mix all together and what have you got?You guessed it...one very mediocre movie!.
Wow, this Chuck Norris movie really has a low score..
I can not believe this movie has such a low score, I did not think it was all that great, but I thought it was rather watchable.
All through the movie they seemed to be building a somewhat great final showdown between Chuck and some awesome fighter, but that fight never materialized.
In fact, at the beginning of the movie when they were talking about their town finally being recognized as a town they mentioned someone that was supposedly integral in the founding of the town and I thought this unseen character would be the one to have a showdown with Chuck, but instead it seemed to be some random guy.
The story is a bit like a couple of other movies about small towns and dudes who come into these towns and kick butt because the small town is usually full of corruption.
Here I think Chuck's brother is a truck driver who gets pulled over and ends up being taken prisoner in this town so Chuck has to come into town and rescue him.
This film is a bit like the movie "Ruckus", though I would say that film is the superior movie even though this one has Chuck Norris in it and that one did not..
This is a superb bit of film work it is Marshall arts it is Trucking and Corrupt law enforcement and nineteen seventy's culture , it is life in it's purest form it takes base human emotion toe instinct to protect ones family as in this story JD Dawes is driven to rescue his brother form a corrupt Judge in a back water rat hole of a town.
Chuck Norris first ever lead role in an action film or any film for that matter.
He plays a trucker who must go rescue his younger brother (also a trucker) from this little hick town in the desert ran by a crooked Judge (George Murdock) and his two henchmen police officers.
He does kick a lot of butt and when he finally ventures into the hick town at about the thirty minute mark the movie never slows down after that.
is a CB/ redneck trucker karate movie that is a good vehicle for Chuck Norris to show his fighting skills in his 1st leading role.
This drive in action movie is good entertainment for sure with awesomely bad acting, 70's redneck trucker stuff and Chuck Norris beating up a bunch of hillbillies with no chance who don't know who they are messing with.
While this is by no means the best Chuck Norris movie, you can certainly do much worse.
But altogether it's such a good fun to watch this kind of movie, It's a shame they never did a sequel of it....B-).....
It's a great drive in action flick, with a very effective strong-and-pretty-darn-silent performance by Chuck, and a strong story that is streamlined to the bone just like the old Westerns used to be.
And if you've seen a lot of Chuck's flicks, you gotta know this tight little movie beats the hell out of other early Norris favorites like The Octagon, Good Guys Wear Black, and A Force of One. In fact, this is a much better film than most of his later, more successful films like Invasion USA or Hellbound..
Decent Chuck Norris flick.
I saw this in a drive in way back when, and didn't think much of Chuck Norris as an actor.
It was something about a truck driver rescuing some family, and as usual Chuck does his martial arts thing against the good old boys of hick town USA.The truth is it's kind of a dumb flick.
Not something I'd recommend, even for a night's viewing, but if you like seeing martial arts on the big screen against corrupt hicks, then give this film a whirl..
This movie made me want to see Chuck as a good ol' Duke boy!
You gotta love when the guy with the red shirt and blue jean overalls holding the rake says to Chuck, "I'm gonna stick ya!"This movie doesn't have the big, tough bad guy who may or may not know martial arts that would fight Chuck at the end, but he does take on the lawman that's probably the tougher between the sheriff and the deputy.
A tip for a good laugh while watching this movie- when Chuck beats the snot out of the lawmen, think of the song, "Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do?" This works even better while watching the lawmen on the Dukes of Hazard in their funniest "crime fighting" moments!.
The fight scenes are ridiculous (which is uncommon for a Chuck Norris film...
Not the kind of thing one would expect from Chuck Norris.
Here we got Chuck Norris with his golden blonde hair flowing in the wind starring in his first leading role, where he's not only kicking ass (that's hillbilly ass), but driving a truck.
Still it's rather amusing watching Norris in a small backwoods town causing a ruckus.
The story is threadbare, as trucker Billy Dawes disappears during his first solo run, so his older brother J.D sets out to find him.
An oddball, low-grade action Norris fare."I'm not going anywhere until I know where my brother is.".
for a Chuck Norris film,this one isn't that bad.it's one of this earlier ones.it's not his best by any means.but it is a lot of fun to watch.the plot is nothing new.corrupt town town,run by a corrupt judge and corrupt police.older brother sets out to find younger brother who disappears on his first solo trucking run.finds out out he may be somewhere in the corrupt town,either dead or alive.older brother sets out to rescue younger brother and becomes a one man wrecking crew.that's the synopsis in a nutshell.obviously there's lots of martial arts action.and it's actually pretty well done.there aren't a lot of flashy camera tricks to make it look fancy.the acting is adequate for this genre.i've seen much worse in my time.for me,Breaker!
The plot was thin, the acting even thinner, but what the movie excelled in was fast paced stunts and neck-cracking roundhouse kicks - the kind of kicks that only Chuck Norris can deliver.
This was a very young and very blonde Chuck Norris who played the role of John David Dawes.
Billy gets into trouble with a Joshua Trimmings who's a crooked Judge that runs the small town.
Notice how cleverly Chuck Norris ducked around the handful of dirt that Supermexcop tried to throw in his face during the final fight.
You KNEW he was in trouble when his Fistfulofdirt trick did not FAKE OUT Chuck Norris for a 2nd time.
I'm not saying I could sense impending doom for Supermexcop Cedilla, but his on screen fight was about to come to a screeching halt, just like his acting career!
Despite being from 1977, a movie 2 years younger than myself, I still sat down to watch it, given the fact that it starred Chuck Norris.
I didn't read the synopsis, nor did I know what it was about, but it had Chuck Norris, which in itself is a selling point.I must say that "Breaker!
Breaker!" seems like a hybrid between "Convoy" and "Over the Top", yet it failed to live up to both movies in any noteworthy manner.
Breaker!" just failed to be unique.The movie is a rather boring one at best, with a slow paced and rather pointless story.
And this permeated throughout the entire movie, making it a less than mediocre experience.I managed to sit through 53 minutes of "Breaker!
I just ended up giving up, because the movie wasn't taking any turn for an improvement, and it just thrummed on in the same monotonous and irrelevant pace that it had been since it started.Now, I am not overly a huge fan of Chuck Norris, and I am most definitely not a follower of his just because he is Chuck Norris.
Breaker!" because I found it by chance and his movies were usually fairly entertaining back in the day.
Breaker!" is surely a movie for the dedicated fans of Chuck Norris, but you might actually be better off watching "Convoy" or "Over the Top" instead..
This makes rednecks look good, Chuck Norris could never act.
I grade this one star.Its degrading sterotype.Hillbillys.truckers,Redneck,Cops..this movie is so bad I can't think of anymore words to describe it .
Or if you like really bad movies, which is my case, then you've found yourself a feces-encrusted rusted-out-Chevy-Nova of a film.
Chuck Norris plays J.D. Dawes, a trucker who goes to a town where his brother gets a moving violation charge against him.
However, since it is supposed to be an action movie, I cannot give it more stars since the humor was unintentional.Chuck Norris plays a truck driver who comes home from the road to see his family, and within the first five minutes the conflict arises which leads Chuck to seek vengeance for the rest of the film.
Actually, the judge was pretty good, but I can't really describe what makes him work, you'll have to check it out for yourself.And the custom van Chuck Norris drives is hideously classic!.
I bought this Chuck Norris DVD knowing that it was one of his earliest films, and it shows.
There's really not much to say about this early Chuck Norris flick.
The screenplay is really well done (which is not often the case for this type of movies) and you can see that Chuck (in one of his first role)is a great actor.
I've always been a fan of Chuck Norris for what he's accomplished and his movies.
So this trucker, Billy Dawes (Augenstein) is given the chance to make his delivery, but on the way he is detoured and forced into a jerkwater town where a foolish local corrupt Judge Trimmings (Murdock) who runs the whole town, has him arrested and phony charges brought up on him.
But now his brother JD John Dawes (Norris) another trucker goes looking for him.
In the meantime the female of the film calls on local truckers on a CB radio, and they all come rushing into town demolishing it.
Eventually Norris finds his brother and beats off more thugs.This movie was pretty bad.
Norris also manages to take on everyone in town, gets his hand broken and shot in the side and goes on to keep fighting.
This movie is bad, but if you're bored and need something to watch it will pass the time.
A truck driver searches for his missing brother.The only thing to say about this movie is thats its a Chuck Norris movie.
This film was made for one reason only...to watch good ol Chuck walk around and kick some people in the chest.
I've seen a heck of a lot worse.Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door..
Chuck Norris stars as a high-kicking truck driver out to find his little brother, who ran into trouble in a hick town in California run by a cartoon villain.
The climax is great, too....This is one of the better Chuck Norris movies I've seen, and is a good slice of 1970s rural/trucking America.
After watching "Smokey & the Bandit" 500,000 times (& enjoying it), I decided to finally give "Breaker!
Our hero Chuck's kid brother is beat up by bad-guy cops, Chuck goes looking for him, meets waitress in bad-guy town, they shack up in his cool Ford 4X4 custom van, he kicks some bad-guy butt & his trucker buddies trash the town.
Chuck Norris should hang his head for making this one.
Chuck's "first" movie.
Is short and sweet – "Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge." There's really not much more that needs to be said about the plot.
Chuck Norris goes looking for his brother, discovers he disappeared in a backwoods town, kicks everyone in sight, calls his trucker buddies to bust up the buildings, rescues his bother.
Breaker!, it's difficult to believe that Norris would go on to have the film career he did.
I had heard of this movie but knew nothing about it except Chuck Norris and cb'ers.
(Plot) Chuck Norris's younger brother is kidnapped by a corrupt judge in a small town.
When it comes to early Norris films, you're most likely gonna get awful films, but this is his worst by a landslide.
Check out that final fight scene where Norris is able to ignore a gunshot wound in the stomach, and still kick ass.
It is hilarious to a certain degree to see "the martial arts master" Chuck Norris running around in his bell bottom pants, lumbering through god awful fight choreography and throwing karate kicks that any beginner level student could do.
Like, for example, at the end when the truckers hear a plea for help from Chuck's girlfriend and decide to dump their payloads and drive their trucks through the town.
Breaker!" is early Chuck Norris vehicle (and it shows).
Directed by third-rate schlock artist Don Hulette, the 1977 Chuck Norris film "Breaker!
Chuck's little brother (played by Michael Augenstein) is abducted while driving his truck through a small lawless Texas town (called "Texas City").
What took them so long?Norris went on to big and better things after this turkey and his acting, although still a bit wooden for most tastes, improved "dramatically" over time.