Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.
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Burt ReynoldsWriter:
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| Burt Reynolds | ... | Gator McKlusky | |
| Jack Weston | ... | Irving Greenfield | |
| Lauren Hutton | ... | Aggie Maybank | |
| Jerry Reed | ... | Bama McCall | |
| Alice Ghostley | ... | Emmeline Cavanaugh | |
| Dub Taylor | ... | Mayor Caffrey | |
| Mike Douglas | ... | The Governor | |
| Burton Gilliam | ... | Smiley | |
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William Engesser | ... | Bones |
| John Steadman | ... | Ned McKlusky | |
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Lori Futch | ... | Suzie McKlusky |
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Stephanie Burchfield | ... | Young Girl |
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Dudley Remus | ... | Deputy Pogie, Dunston PD |
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Alex Hawkins | ... | Police Chief |
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J. Don Ferguson | ... | Bartender (as Don Ferguson) |
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Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.
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EnglishRelease Date:
20 August 1976 (Finland) See more »Also Known As:
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$11,000,000Company Credits
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The pinball-like machine in the bar scene is Midway's Target Gallery from 1962. It is not a pinball, but a bat and ball game. See more »Goofs
When Bones picks up Smiley in the parking lot, his boots are mid-calf; when the stunt man is on the roof of the car, portraying Bones, his boots are ankle high. See more »Quotes
Officer Talmadge: That ain't no ordinary boat he's got there, it's got some kind of damn rocket on it. Oh! Shit!See more »
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one of the most endearing qualities about this movie is the fact that it brings the seventies back to your memories...it was filmed in 1976 and it shows it often....the scene where jerry (reed) enters the "southside shuffle "topless" bar...nails the period completely... as well as other fashions, lingo, and of course burt himself...who "owned" the seventies....due to this movie and his other good ole boy films of the south....coupled with the overwhelming popularity of smokey and the bandit (yet to come a year later)...established burt as a seemingly permanent fixture in cinema back then...I always thought burt would stay on top I guess...he seemed invincible as the #1 box office attraction...he is definitely an icon of the seventies time capsule...his swagger and his sense of humor put a brand on me as I remember many times in my life (silently) asking myself...what would burt do in a situation like this?....
as pure acting goes...the film had one of the best supporting actors around and due to his lack of experience I guess you would just have to sum up jerry reed as being a "natural".....he played the villain so well you wanted him to stop...and go back to the good ole boy that you knew he could be (later as cletus snow in smokey and the bandit)
gator is/was one of my all time favorite films...from a time period that I thought would never end...I miss it and this film will help you reunite with it if you are nostalgic at all...