Walking Tall
Action • R • 1973 • 2 hr 5 min
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A gritty, amazing movie with good character development. The story engulfs you in the movie and you empathize with Buford’s struggle.
Well done fight scenes and fun cheesy acting only real complaint is that it’s a little bit too long and ends rather abruptly
A great movie I saw probably to young. Feel good movie and overall good performance.
A badass revenge flick. Taking down corruption in a small town. One of the best from its era. Don’t miss this one.
Joe Don Baker was by far the best Buford Pusser. Bo Svensson was a good second, and Dwayne Johnson a miserable third. Good series.
Better than the remake with Duane Johnson.
Southern revenge melodrama that combines every thread of the genre with raw emotion—watch it in continuity with 50s crime melodrama
Great movie. True story.Visited some of the actual locations from the movie in Tennessee. Part 2 with Bo Svenson is excellent, too
The original is definitely better than the remake. This is Joe Don Bakers best movie
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Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
The Walking Tall legacy continues with Bo Svenson as Sheriff Buford Pusser, a one-man army trying to rid his town of corruption. Out to avenge his wife's death at the hand of the mob, Sheriff Pusser blows up their moonshine operation. With Buford breathing down their necks, the syndicate hires two hitmen; one a maniacal race car driver, the other a deadly gunslinger. Any other man would've hightailed it out of there, but then Pusser is no ordinary man.
It's the final chapter in this chilling, real-life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a good-hearted lawman set on keeping his town safe. Still distraught over his wife's death, he blows up every moonshine still in McNairy county and burns the brothels and whiskey joints to the ground. Having gone too far, he's voted out of office, but that doesn't stop the mob from seeking their revenge. Buford soon discovers how small his town is when he runs out of highway with the mob on his trail.
