646f9e108c Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.
This 1976 sequel to Burt's successful good-ole-boy movie WHITE LIGHTNING doesn't represent its star in peak form–as actor or director. (The picture was uncreditedly co-directed by James Best, star of several Sam Fuller movies; he didn't learn much from the old man.) But it's memorable for one reason only–for the guy who, for my money, takes the cake for Greatest Character Actor of the Seventies Gone to Waste.<br/><br/>Jerry Reed is best known for his novelty songs and his appearances in bumptious comedies like HOT STUFF (opposite Suzanne Pleshette and Dom DeLuise). But look at his chillingly suave downhome hit man in Michael Ritchie's THE SURVIVORS, or his magnificent performance here, and you see the man who should have had Tommy Lee Jones' career.<br/><br/>As Bama, a dirt-poor boy made gooda pimp and a gangster, Jerry Reed has the kind of unnameable connection with the audience that other singers-turned-actors like Sinatra and, on occasion, Willie Nelson had. His Bama never lets you forget the tin-shack fate he overcame through a life of peddling sin: he's like the redneck star of his own blaxploitation movie playing in his head. The smoothie charmer who can turn sadistic-violent on a dime isripe an opportunity for hamthey come, but Jerry Reed is genuinely seductive and chilling–and Reynolds hands him scene after scene to steal. The guy was a great actor–and he never got the chances that a similar (and less varied) actor like Charles Napier got.<br/><br/>If someone's reading this has the opportunity–give the guy a job.
When I saw this, I was not aware it was a sequel. It just so happens I saw "White Lightning" on the same TV station a week later, after I had found out this was a sequel. So now I can compare the two movies.<br/><br/>If I hadn't known Gator was a character from "White Lightning", I wouldn't have believed it. Gator in this movie was more like Burt Reynolds' "Smokey and the Bandit" character. In other words, Reynolds just being Reynolds, a smart aleck, though intelligent and charming.<br/><br/>This movie was more fun but nothigh quality"White Lightning". Nevertheless, it did have its dark side. Although it started out with a "Dukes of Hazzard" style chase but with boats, and it was mostly a comedy, the final scenes were not funny at all. It was a real shame.<br/><br/>Jerry Reed did a very good job; Bama did come across almost like J. R. in most of his scenes with Gator, though in a lot of his scenes Bama was hardly a J. R. Ewing type. He was just plain nasty, and that one scene that nearly spoiled the movie for me was the real proof of just how evil he was. <br/><br/>The standout performance came from Alice Ghostleya woman who loved cats and once worked in the courthouse. Her former job meant she knew where to find information that could put Bama away–but because it was her former job, illegal tactics had to be employed. Of course they did! What fun would a movie like this be otherwise?<br/><br/>It's mostly a movie for the type people who enjoyed "Smokey and the Bandit". Too silly for Oscar, but entertaining.
This follow-up to White Lightning never takes itself seriously, veeringit does through many incompatible dramatic and violent moods for nearly two hours.

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