Walking Tall (1973)

Cast

Bruce Glover
as Grady Coker
Joe Don Baker
as Buford Pusser
Leif Garrett
as Mike
Red West
as Sheriff Tanner

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Genres & Description

Action Crime Drama Thriller

7.0 / 10

A surprise hit when it premiered, Walking Tall carried the theme of one man standing up for his sense of right and wrong. Selmer, a small town in southwest Tennessee, served as the authentic background for the bio-pic of the heroic southern Sheriff. Joe Don Baker did an admirable job with the role, and the hugely violent film was a surprise hit. Former Sheriff Pusser himself was set to potray himself in the sequel, but he died in a car crash as he as returning from his contract signing in California. The sequel was filmed using Swedish actor Bo Swensen, and a Final Chapter triquel told of Pussers' demise. While the Walking Tall franchise will never be on any list of Classic Film, the original is a great slice of Americana, Circa '70s. It made Bakers' career and perhaps kicked the 'southsploutation' genre of that decade into gear.

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Comments on this trailer
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Billy Cahill

a verry good movie - @Saturday, July 14, 2018 7:53 PM

Andrew Joseph Hasty

To my friend Buford Pusser & I made my own true story called Walking Tall. - @Thursday, April 12, 2018 10:20 AM

Martin Miller

who the fuck claps after a movie?! - @Tuesday, April 3, 2018 3:50 AM

eLi FILMS

It's similar to the Texas Chainsaw trailer. Someone should recut them together - @Tuesday, March 27, 2018 5:21 AM

JayDogTitan 1464

These movies were awesome, a true story of a real American legendary hero!!👍👍 - @Sunday, February 18, 2018 5:17 AM

Alden R. Davis

"For Sheriff Buford Pusser, there's law and order, but for crime, corruption and vice, there's hell to pay." - @Wednesday, September 27, 2017 2:26 AM

MrAntiSellOut

Remains way better than the 2004 PG-13 rated remake - @Saturday, September 16, 2017 8:29 AM

MrAntiSellOut

Remains way better than the 2004 PG-13 rated remake - @Saturday, September 16, 2017 8:28 AM

MrAntiSellOut

Remains way better than the 2004 PG-13 rated remake - @Saturday, September 16, 2017 8:27 AM

MrAntiSellOut

Remains way better than the 2004 PG-13 rated remake - @Saturday, September 16, 2017 8:26 AM

SIKE01

WALKING TALL's JOE DON BAKER in his prime would have been great as THE GOVERNOR on THE WALKING DEAD - @Friday, August 11, 2017 3:42 PM

John Greene

Walking Tall is a very successful movie that although is highly fictionalized is quite entertaining. Buford Pusser's life was the basis of four movies, a TV movie and a short lived TV series. The movie was filmed on a very small budget ($500,000) and it shows. One can almost make a game out of counting the continuity errors and the number of times the boom mic (or it's shadow) appears in many scenes. But despite the low production it went on to gross over $23 million at the box office. Joe Don Baker turned down being in the sequel and Buford was to play himself, but he died in a car crash before filming the sequel started. - @Friday, March 17, 2017 2:22 AM

M Paxton

One dislike. And I know who it was! I love this movie! - @Sunday, May 1, 2016 7:36 PM

Richard Brooks

Some of those beer joints in that movie remind me of some that Ive been in.Talking about standing up for yourself like a lone wolf.Had those rednecks buying me a beer after they messed with me. - @Friday, February 6, 2015 6:07 AM

Alden R. Davis

Walking Tall is based on the real true story of Sheriff Buford Pusser of McNairy County, Tennessee, who became an real American hero with a big stick, who wages a virtual one-man war against crime, moonshining, illegal gambling, prostitution, and all other vices in his hometown of McNairy County, Tennessee from 1964 to 1970. He remains a true American legend until his accidental death on August 21, 1974, he was 36 years old at the time of his untimely death. His efforts was inspired in several books, songs, movies and a short-lived TV series. But the true legend of Buford Pusser lives on. - @Friday, December 5, 2014 4:37 AM

James Cooper

Actually, this is a televised advertisement from 1973. - @Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:36 PM

Michael Friedman

Excellent trailer! - @Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:45 AM