I let out a shriek at this. The "Walking Tall" movies were all over cable when I was a kid. The first one, directed by Phil Karlson and starring the late Joe Don Baker, is a classic...that I guess comes now with a major set of asterisks.
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Whoa! I wonder what caused the authorities to exhume her body.
aug 29, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
According to various articles, there had been pressure on the TBI to re-investigate for some time ... a couple of podcasts, articles, etc. They finished the autopsy and then sat on the findings while people yelled for them to release it. Now they're scheduled to release it all. Poor woman, my lord.
aug 29, 2025, 8:33 pm • 7 1 • view
You probably already saw this one, but others reading the thread may not. apple.news/AgkU38hb0Scu...
aug 29, 2025, 8:44 pm • 2 1 • view
Thanks--that makes sense. The world is woefully bereft of actual good guys. At least he had a painful, senseless, early death.
aug 29, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Even the 1973 movie can be read as making Pusser out to be a bully in his own right, depending I guess on much you like seeing people get beat up. (I don't remember anything about the sequels although I know we watched them.)
aug 29, 2025, 8:44 pm • 3 1 • view
OMG! (alas, content not available in my region) But... OMG!
aug 29, 2025, 8:20 pm • 3 1 • view
I was curious (and it's wasn't available in my region either) archive.is/Z16Xj
aug 29, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 1 • view
Thanks!
aug 29, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
What a turn-up for the books.
aug 29, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
“Buford Pusser historian”
aug 29, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, this is going to be quite the holiday weekend for Mr. Sweat, I imagine.
aug 29, 2025, 9:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh, wow. I was a kid in Nashville when the sequels with Bo Svenson were released. I'm pretty sure I saw the second movie in the theaters there.
aug 29, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Had a hardcover first of his 70s bio, found it for a dollar or so, just look a look...suspect the current @$400 price for copies will change in one direction or the other...
aug 29, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Yikes!
aug 29, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
The first film has Elizabeth Hartman; I'm a big fan of hers.
aug 29, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
At least we perhaps now know why Joe Don Baker refused to do the endless sequels.
aug 29, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Really is kinda perfect too, to find out this lionized figure of old fashioned white manhood in the new fashioned 70s committed an unspeakable crime. Horrible. But also says so much about our country.
aug 29, 2025, 9:26 pm • 7 0 • view