Moving Violation

Moving Violation is a 1976 action film. It was one of several films Roger Corman produced for 20th Century Fox. Plot Drifter Eddie Moore arrives in the small oil town of Rockfield, where he is picked up and harassed by the town's corrupt sheriff Leroy Rankin and deputy Tylor for violation of town ordinance against hitch-hiking. They dump him at the oil field and order him not to return to the town ever again. Eddie wanders to a drive-in, where he buys an ice cream and falls in love with shopgirl Camille "Cam" Johnson. Cam then shows him around town in her van, before they drive to the mansion of Mr. H.L. Rockfield, the richest man in the area, and skinny-dip in the pool. Meanwhile, Tylor also arrives at mansion and starts criticizing the business practices of Rockfield. However, what he doesn't know is that Sheriff Rankin is also there and heard every word he said. Outside, Eddie and Cam witness as Rankin and Tylor argue, then Rankin pulls out a gun and shoots Tylor. Tylor manages to stagger away and seek refuge in the back of Cam's van, just as Cam and Eddie arrive flee in the van. Now Rankin wants them dead so that they won't talk, so he sets off in hot pursuit. With the van's back door open from where Tylor staggered in, Rankin shoots inside and shoots him dead. The pursuit ends with Cam crashing the van into the ditch, but she and Eddie survive. As Rankin comes down to investigate, he trips and falls unconscious. Cam and Eddie escape in his car. A hot pursuit ensues as they encounter Rankin's deputies. After a while, Rankin's car dies, so Eddie and Cam hijack a Cadillac. As they stop at a diner, Eddie tells Cam to call a lawyer, which she does, albeit it's Sunday and so the lawyer isn't working. Just then, the Cadillac's owner arrives, having hitched a ride with United Farm Workers in the back of a pickup truck, and starts to fight Eddie. Cam manages to break up the fight by firing a pistol they took from Tylor in the van. Eddie and Cam escape again in the Cadillac to the next town of Cody, with Rankin, who has called the Cody County sheriff, following. Eddie and Cam manage to evade the sheriff's deputies in a warehouse, before going into a flea store where they call the FBI to report the murder, but are forced to hang up and flee again when the deputies enter the store. They slip out of the back door and steal another car, and another hot pursuit ensues.