Movies by Ned Beatty
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Rango (2011)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin …
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Johnny Depp lends his voice to the title character, an adventurous family pet who leaves home to learn more about himself in this comic animated tale also featuring the vocal talents of…
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Rampart (2011)
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Ned Beatty, Francis Capra …
Directed by: Oren Moverman
Dave Brown is a dirty cop with a mile-wide mean streak. As he roams the streets meting out "justice," the LAPD sinks into a corruption scandal. The countdown to Brown's judgment is on in…
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Toy Story 3 (2010)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack …
Directed by: Lee Unkrich
In this installment of the Pixar animated franchise, toy cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), his astronaut pal, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), and their friends cope with their owner's…
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The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Cast: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba …
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
West Texas Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is harboring a dark secret. Though the small town's residents think he's a bit dense, Ford is, in fact, afflicted with a "sickness" that turns the…
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The Great Bank Hoax / The Great Bank Robbery (2009)
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Kim Novak, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Joseph Jacoby, Hy Averback
A banking clerk works his connections from the inside and ends up with more corruption than he bargained for in The Great Bank Hoax (1978), while three different plans to rob the same Texas…
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In the Electric Mist (2008)
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard …
Directed by: Bertrand Tavernier
Detective Dave Robicheaux finds himself swimming in a murky sea of corruption, deception and lies when he probes the connection between a rash of murders and a notorious New Orleans mobster…
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Shooter (2007)
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover …
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
An expert marksman is coaxed out of seclusion by colleagues who need his help in preventing a plot to kill the president. But he realizes he's been set up when he's framed for the…
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Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Texas congressman Charlie Wilson sets a series of earth-shaking events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in an Oscar-nominated role) to aid Afghan…
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The Walker (2007)
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall …
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Openly gay Carter Page III often escorts middle-aged Washington, D.C., wives to high-society events their husbands can't attend. But when the lover of one of his women friends is killed,…
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Sweet Land (2005)
Cast: Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming …
Directed by: Ali Selim
Norwegian-American farmer Olaf Torvik (Tim Guinee) and his rural Minnesotan community must struggle to overcome years of anti-German propaganda and prejudice when he discovers that his…
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The Wool Cap (2004)
Cast: William H. Macy, Catherine O'Hara, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Steven Schachter
This television movie, a remake of the 1962 Jackie Gleason film Gigot, stars William H. Macy as Charles Gigot, the mute superintendent of a run-down apartment building who solemnly goes about…
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Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Cast: Joseph Ashton, Dave Matthews, Dabney Coleman …
Directed by: Lyman D. Dayton, Sam Pillsbury
Based on the children's book by Wilson Rawls, this family drama set in the Ozark Mountains centers on 12-year-old Billy Coleman (Joseph Ashton), who sets his sights on a goal and…
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Thunderpants (2002)
Cast: Bruce Cook, Rupert Grint, Simon Callow …
Directed by: Peter Hewitt
Life is a gas -- literally, not figuratively -- for poor Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook), whose gastrointestinal condition leaves an invisible cloud of odor constantly hovering around him. The…
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Roughing It (2001)
Cast: James Garner, Robin Dunne, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Charles Martin Smith
Adapted from the autobiography of legendary American writer Mark Twain, this compelling, poignant drama infused with an air of youthful adventure stars award-winning actor James Garner as the…
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Homicide: The Movie (2000)
Cast: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer …
Directed by: Jean de Segonzac
Former Homicide Shift Commander Al "G" Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), now the leading candidate for mayor of Baltimore, is gunned down while presenting a speech. Baltimore Police Department's…
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Spring Forward (1999)
Cast: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott …
Directed by: Tom Gilroy
Spring Forward focuses on the friendship between two men who work for the parks department in a small New England town. His first day on the job, Paul (Liev Schreiber), a skittish ex-con…
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Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Cast: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler …
Directed by: Robert Altman
"Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) -- salt of the earth and cornerstone of her small Southern town -- leaves a terrible void as well as a huge fortune when she dies. So her two estranged, greedy…
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He Got Game (1998)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich …
Directed by: Spike Lee
Director Spike Lee looks at basketball and how far the sport will look the other way to protect and acquire key players. The plot hinges on a convict father (Denzel Washington) who'll…
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Just Cause (1995)
Cast: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw …
Directed by: Arnold Glimcher, Arne Glimcher
A death row inmate calls on a Harvard law professor to prove his innocence years after being convicted of murdering a young girl, but the police refuse to consider the new evidence…
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The Affair (1995)
Cast: Ned Beatty, Kerry Fox, Courtney B. Vance …
Directed by: Paul Seed
Travis is an African American soldier stationed in World War II England who becomes involved with Maggie, a married white woman. He soon becomes victim to prejudice and injustice when…
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Radioland Murders (1994)
Cast: Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Charles Martin Smith
It's 1939, and Chicago radio station WBN celebrates its debut broadcast in this zany farce from producer George Lucas. While staff writer Roger Henderson (Brian Benben) tries to…
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Replikator: Cloned to Kill (1994)
Cast: Ned Beatty, Michael St. Gerard, Brigitte Bako …
Directed by: Philip Jackson, G. Philip Jackson
Two rival companies race to see who can develop technology to clone humans in this sci-fi actioner. As the competition heats up, the larger corporation plots to wipe out the smaller…
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Rudy (1993)
Cast: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Jon Favreau …
Directed by: David Anspaugh
In this fact-based drama about the triumph of the human spirit, scrawny high schooler Rudy Ruettiger (Sean Astin) dreams of playing football at Notre Dame. But his father (Ned Beatty)…
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Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty, Miriam Margolyes …
Directed by: Jonathan Wacks
It's been a year since Ed Chilton's mother passed away, and life just isn't the same. Eager to have her back, Ed (Steve Buscemi) turns to a company that, for a large fee,…
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Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Cast: Meg Ryan, Alec Baldwin, Patty Duke …
Directed by: Norman Rene
It's love at first sight for Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan. Within days of meeting, they're walking down the aisle, and a strange thing happens: An old man shows up and kisses the…
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Hear My Song (1991)
Cast: Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Brian Flanagan …
Directed by: Peter Chelsom
British concert promoter Micky O'Neill (Adrian Dunbar) ends up in a jam when the man claiming to be Irish tenor Josef Locke -- who fled England 30 years ago to escape a tax evasion rap…
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A Cry in the Wild (1990)
Cast: Ned Beatty, Jared Rushton, Terence H. Winkless …
Directed by: Mark Griffiths
When a pilot suffers a heart attack, his plane plummets into the wilderness. The only survivor is a 12-year-old boy named Brian (Jared Rushton), who learns to grow up fast as he fends for…
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Repossessed (1990)
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Robert Logan
In director Bob Logan's campy send up of William Friedkin's horror classic The Exorcist, Linda Blair stars as an ill-fated housewife who becomes possessed by devil while watching a…
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Big Bad John (1990)
Cast: Ned Beatty, Jimmy Dean, Bo Hopkins …
Directed by: Burt Kennedy
Singer, television personality and sausage magnate Jimmy Dean stars in the film version of his chart-topping ballad of the same name, playing the reluctant sheriff who pursues the fugitive in…
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Chattahoochee (1989)
Cast: Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand …
Directed by: Mick Jackson
Based on a true story, Chattahoochee depicts the life of Emmett Foley (Gary Oldman), a Korean War hero who becomes an unlikely crusader on behalf of mental health patients. Unable to adjust…
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Physical Evidence (1989)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Michael Crichton
After a drunken binge, detective Joe Paris (Burt Reynolds) awakens one morning to find he's been suspended from the force and accused of murder. To clears his name, he must join forces…
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Ministry of Vengeance (1989)
Cast: Ken Abraham, John Schneider, James Tolkan …
Directed by: Peter Maris
A Vietnam vet who had renounced violence to become a minister, David Miller (John Schneider) regains his killer instinct through intense training after a terrorist slaughters his wife and…
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Tennessee Nights (1989)
Cast: Julian Sands, Stacey Dash, Ed Lauter …
Directed by: Nicolas Gessner
While on a brief visit to Nashville, British attorney Wolfgang Leighton (Julian Sands) gets on the wrong side of Southern hospitality when an encounter with local lovely Sally Lomas (Denise…
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The Good Mother (1988)
Cast: Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards …
Directed by: Leonard Nimoy
Anna (Diane Keaton) is a divorced mother who nurtures and adores her 6-year-old daughter. After Anna finds new love with artist Leo (Liam Neeson), she's hit with a nasty custody battle…
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Midnight Crossing (1988)
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Daniel J. Travanti, Kim Cattrall …
Directed by: Roger Holzberg
A cruise to the Bahamas is a dream come true for two couples (Faye Dunaway and Daniel J. Travanti, Kim Cattrall and Ned Beatty). But all is not smooth sailing, as the past encroaches on the…
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Go Toward the Light (1988)
Cast: Linda Hamilton, Piper Laurie, Joshua Harris …
Directed by: Mike Robe
Claire (Linda Hamilton) and Greg (Richard Thomas) face the horror of their son contracting a life-threatening illness in this emotional drama based on the book by Chris Oyler. When their…
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Cast: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: John Mackenzie
In an effort to shatter NATO alliances, Russian spy Valeri Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan) plots to explode a nuclear bomb in Britain and blame the act on America. It's up to British agent…
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The Big Easy (1986)
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Jim McBride
When a New Orleans police detective is assigned to investigate a series of mob-related slayings, he's forced into regular contact with an assistant district attorney determined to prove…
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Back to School (1986)
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young …
Directed by: Alan Metter
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to…
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Restless Natives (1985)
Cast: Ned Beatty, Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney …
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Fed up with their jobs as a joke store employee and a street cleaner, respectively, Ronnie (Joe Mullaney) and Will (Vincent Friell) don quirky costumes and transform themselves into bandits…
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Stroker Ace (1983)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors …
Directed by: Hal Needham
Top NASCAR driver Stroker Ace races and romances in high-speed, good-old-boy style. But when he signs unread a contract with a sly chicken magnate, he must cut ribbons at fast-food outlets,…
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Touched (1983)
Cast: Robert Hays, Kathleen Beller, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: John Flynn
This offbeat, upbeat romance stars Robert Hays as Daniel, a patient in a mental institution who concludes that there's really nothing wrong with him, and sets out to prove it by escaping…
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The Toy (1982)
Cast: Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Richard Donner
In an attempt to placate his spoiled son, wealthy businessman U.S. Bates buys his boy the ultimate toy -- a human plaything named Jack Brown, who's desperate enough to put up with the…
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A Woman Called Golda (1982)
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Franklin Cover …
Directed by: Alan Gibson
This made-for-TV biopic stars Emmy winner Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir, a Russian-born Jew raised in Wisconsin who served as prime minister of Israel from 1969-74 -- one of the most turbulent…
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
Cast: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty …
Hardworking housewife Pat Kramer (Lily Tomlin) gets that "shrinking" feeling after she is exposed to a mix of household chemicals that slowly and steadily make her smaller and smaller, much…
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Superman II (1980)
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp …
Directed by: Richard Lester
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton test the Man of Steel's mettle in this hit sequel. Led by Gen. Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex…
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Hopscotch (1980)
Cast: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston …
Directed by: Ronald Neame
One of the CIA's top international operatives, Miles Kendig is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, Kendig begins writing a memoir that…
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980)
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: Richard Lester
Superman flagship director Richard Donner presents this special cut of the 1980 sequel starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, who's locked in a battle to save Earth from three…
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1941 (1979)
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
In the days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, panic sets in among California's citizens, who imagine their shores as the next target. Military and civilian defenders of the West…
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Promises in the Dark (1979)
Cast: Marsha Mason, Ned Beatty, Susan Clark …
Directed by: Jerome Hellman
This heartwrenching tale chronicles the slow demise of Buffy Koenig (Kathleen Beller), a terminally ill cancer patient undergoing a series of futile treatments. Always by her side during the…
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Wise Blood (1979)
Cast: Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor …
Directed by: John Huston
Legendary director John Huston takes on legendary writer Flannery O'Connor with this film version of her debut novel, centered on an angry young man -- Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) -- who…
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Superman: The Movie (1978)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve …
Directed by: Richard Donner
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane, who's in love with Superman. Clark must summon his superhero alter ego when the nefarious…
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Gray Lady Down (1978)
Cast: Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach …
Directed by: David Greene
Gray Lady Down tells the gripping story of the nuclear submarine Neptune (the titular "gray lady"), which is rammed by a Norwegian freighter and sinks 1400 feet before coming to a precarious…
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Superman: The Movie: Expanded Edition (1978)
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Jackie Cooper …
Directed by: Richard Donner
The Man of Steel hits the big screen in director Richard Donner's special effects-laden, Oscar-nominated adventure. This expanded version of the film features remastered footage and…
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The Exorcist 2: The Heretic (1977)
Cast: Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher …
Directed by: John Boorman
Intent on discovering why Regan (Linda Blair) was possessed by the demon Pazuzu, Father Lamont (Richard Burton) travels to Africa in search of another who was once possessed by the same demon…
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¡Alambrista! (1977)
Cast: Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Robert M. Young
This stark drama follows Roberto, a Mexican man who sneaks across the border into California to make money to send back to his family. But immigrant raids and the rough-and-tumble of a…
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All the President's Men (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards …
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
The film that launched a thousand journalism school students, All the President's Men chronicles how the work of reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin…
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Silver Streak (1976)
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor …
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
In this original teaming of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, George Caldwell (Wilder) witnesses a murder aboard a train, but no one believes him. When a detective finally agrees to look into…
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The Big Bus (1976)
Cast: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck …
Directed by: James Frawley
A wonderful spoof of disaster films, The Big Bus is about the world's first nuclear-powered bus -- a whopping 75-ton monster on 32 enormous wheels -- and its maiden journey all the way…
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Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Cast: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: Elaine May
Elaine May directed this intense thriller about two friends, Mikey (Peter Falk) and Nicky (John Cassavetes), who, after 30 years, may finally have hit a wall in their friendship. With his pal…
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Network (1976)
Cast: Ed Crowley, Faye Dunaway, William Holden …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
When a network news anchor loses his mind on the air, his outrageous rants reach viewers at home, boost the ratings and intrigue a pair of cutthroat network executives in this Oscar-winning…
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Nashville (1975)
Cast: Lily Tomlin, Ned Beatty, Keith Carradine …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Countless characters, including Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Ned Beatty and Karen Black, get caught up in a political rally that takes over Nashville in director Robert Altman's…
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White Lightning (1973)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jennifer Billingsley …
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
One of the best Burt Reynolds "rednecks and cars" movies, White Lightning serves up some great auto chases through a sweaty, dirt-poor Southern atmosphere. Reynolds is a good ol' boy who…
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The Last American Hero (1973)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald …
Directed by: Lamont Johnson
Jeff Bridges plays racing champ Junior Jackson in this fast-paced drama based on a true story. Country boy Jackson hones his driving skills running interference for moonshiners and eluding…
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Deliverance (1972)
Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty …
Directed by: John Boorman
Four city-dwelling friends take a canoeing trip down a Georgia river, but what starts out as a lighthearted adventure becomes a voyage into the heart of darkness when redneck locals descend…
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Cast: Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins …
Directed by: John Huston
John Huston brings to life the legendary hanging judge of the Old West, Roy Bean (Paul Newman). The film is a comic take on Bean, who was judge, jury and executioner for most crimes committed…