Movie Description
White Line Fever is a 1975 Canadian-American action crime neo noir directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Jan-Michael Vincent. Kaplan received the offer to direct the movie from Peter Guber at Columbia Pictures after the success of Truck Turner (1974). He says Guber mistakenly thought Truck Turner was about trucks. He said his goal was to make a modern day Western, heavily influenced by the films of Sam Peckinpah. Jan-Michael Vincent was cast by Guber, who thought he was going to be a big star; Kaplan claims this was the film where Vincent first used cocaine. Kaplan says "politically I was trying to counter-act the right-wing vigilantism of some of the pictures that were around at the time." Filming was in and around Tucson, Arizona as well as Monument Valley in Utah.