Handle with Care (1977 film)

Handle with Care is a 1977 comedy movie set in a small town in Nebraska and loosely based on the wide popularity of citizens band radio, usually called CB at the time. It was directed by Jonathan Demme.

Paul Le Mat plays Spider, a young man who makes a meager living repairing CB radios and spends his spare time volunteering with REACT International. He lives with his father, an irascible retired truck driver Roberts Blossom whose CB handle is Papa Thermodyne.Chrome Angel played by Charles Napier is an interstate truck driver named Harold, passing through the outskirts of town during bad weather when he is injured in an accident. After Chrome Angel issues an emergency call over CB Channel 9, Spider rescues him, taking him to the hospital. ........

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