re: #387 TedStriker

I love W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings.

Directed by John Avildsen (later much more well known for directing Rocky, Rocky V, and the original three The Karate Kid movies), it’s Reynolds’ first movie with Jerry Reed (and also with Mel Tillis in a small role, who would later be in Cannonball Run with Reynolds) and also has Art Carney, Don Williams, and teams him up again with Ned Beatty (Deliverance) and James Hampton (The Longest Yard):

I remember seeing this movie on a later run in the late 70s-early 80s with my parents at a long-since-gone drive-in not far from my house as a little kid; as a Nashvillian, it’s also fun to pick out the places where they filmed some of the scenes.

he was more than cannonball and bandit
he had fun