Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.
Director:
Burt ReynoldsWriter:
William W. Norton
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Title: Gator (1976)
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Cast
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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 |
| 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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Gator. Come and get him. See more »Parents Guide:
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Actor John Steadman (Gator's dad) played a character named Pop in the original feature film, The Longest Yard (1974), which also included Burt Reynolds. See more »Goofs
As Gator and Bama drive up to Hannahs night club, the word "Entertainment Nightly" is misspelled as "Entertainment Nitety" See more »Quotes
Gator McKlusky: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Who said that you could make all the decisions? Who said that you could make all the decisions? I should be making the decisions. That was a - that was a good decision that you made there. Wasn't that a good one that she made there?See more »
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20 August 1976 (Finland) See more »Also Known As:
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$11,000,000Company Credits
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"Gator," Burt Reynold's feature film debut shows very brief flashes of twisted dark-comedy, but the vast majority of it just plain sucks the big one. I mean, Reynolds took the gritty, funny, sweaty, realistic character from "White Lightning" and completely threw him away, replacing the original Gator McClusky with the slick, mustachioed, urbanized, Hollywood Burt Reynolds we'd seen cracking wise on talk shows. No character, no grit, no acting--just Burt doing a caricature of himself. On top of that add a lame script that could have been adapted for any actor and any lead character, static direction, and virtually no continuity from the first hit film (now Gator has a son and no mother?). Only Jerry Reed rises above the lame-itude, beginning an acting career he was never allowed to fully develop beyond being Burt's sidekick. A waste of time. See "White Lightning" twice and you'll have a better time than watching this sequel.