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Walking Tall 1973 123movies

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The measure of a man is how tall he walks.Feb. 22, 1973125 Min.
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Watch: Walking Tall 1973 123movies, Full Movie Online – A surprise hit when it premiered, Walking Tall carried the theme of one man standing up for his sense of right and wrong. Selmer, a small town in southwest Tennessee, served as the authentic background for the bio-pic of the heroic southern Sheriff. Joe Don Baker did an admirable job with the role, and the hugely violent film was a surprise hit. Former Sheriff Pusser himself was set to potray himself in the sequel, but he died in a car crash as he as returning from his contract signing in California. The sequel was filmed using Swedish actor Bo Swensen, and a Final Chapter triquel told of Pussers’ demise. While the Walking Tall franchise will never be on any list of Classic Film, the original is a great slice of Americana, Circa ’70s. It made Bakers’ career and perhaps kicked the ‘southsploutation’ genre of that decade into gear..
Plot: Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
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6.9/10 Votes: 6,108
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60/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 93 Popularity: 18.034 | TMDB

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Ironic Thought Provoker.
Joe Don Baker is Buford Pusser, an ex Marine who returns to find his small, peaceful Tennessee town corrupted by an immoral cabal marketing illegal stuff like gambling, white lightning, and trailer hos. He is elected sheriff and cleans it all up.

Baker is mulling over the decision to run for County Sheriff. It’s a dangerous job in this milieu. He’s already seen a friend killed and has himself been horribly tortured. His wife, Elizabeth Hartmann, objects. “Is your pride worth the lives of your wife and children?”, she asks. Both Baker’s character and the viewer take the sentence to be rhetorical. It’s not.

But it’s the sort of challenge that every wife lays down before her man when he’s about to commit himself to some heroic deed. How many times has John Wayne’s cinema wives clashed with him and his career as a sheriff or a Marine because they want him safe at home, not out risking his life, wondering if he’ll come home in a body bag? Phil Karlson, the director, has made a couple of powerful movies but I’m not sure that he understood the import of Hartmann’s question. It may have been that he realized it, but it may also have been an accident, the kind of phrase that slips easily by someone’s critical apparatus. That’s what I meant when I called the movie ironic.

There’s another scene that demonstrates the same irony. Baker has just been ambushed, his wife murdered and half his jaw shot away. His face is encased in plaster up to his eyes. He’s weak and can barely move. And we see the crowd of friends in the corridor gawk and make a path when Baker’s young son solemnly enters the room, carrying the little rifle that Baker gave him for Christmas. The kid is going to kill anyone who tries to hurt his Dad. Do the film makers know what they’re saying? Anyone expected a Steven Segal wisecracker or anything resembling the loutish remake with Dwayne (“The Rock”) Johnson will be disappointed. This movie is ambiguous in too many respects. It’s not a simple revenge movie like “The Punisher,” although there is an abundance of violence and blood. After that first mauling and the subsequent humiliations, Baker is rabid with revenge. His face turns into a horrifying Gargoyle mask as he tortures the spies and law breakers.

I would guess — judging from some recent polls and comments from our own politicians — that about one out of four Americans will see this as the simple triumph of good over evil. (The distribution will be skewed in the direction of boys in their early teens.) It won’t occur to them — though the notion is brought up once or twice by character is the movie — that Baker is a flawed person, that his pride verges on arrogance, and his anger on enjoyment. He brags about his scars.

It’s hard to argue with such a black and white view of the sheriff. He only drinks an occasional beer to be friendly, doesn’t smoke, doesn’t cuss, doesn’t approve of see-through blouses, doesn’t hold with loose women even if they love him, he’s all tenderness with his wife and children, and doesn’t gamble. Has there ever been such purity — outside of the Bible and Arthurian legends? Baker is surprisingly good in the role of the real-life Buford Pusser. You can tell the story is based on actual facts and personalities because where else would you find people with names like Lutie McVey or Ferrin Meaks? As for Buford Pusser, that name would be the first to go. As the heroic central figure, he’d have to have a name like Matt Steel or Bull Durham.

But the acting (and the location photography) are fine across the board. Nobody is a dud. Baker himself always sound like he’s reciting lines in an acting class, doing his level best, but it’s okay in this kind of role. After a while you get used to it and come to believe that this is how he sound off screen. He had a similar role, except as a murderer, in “Charlie Varick,” where he was easily the most complex character. Probably the best performer in this film is Rosemary Murphy as the villainous Callie Hacker, head of the Whore Division. She doesn’t get a chance to exercise her chops here, but catch her in “Night Moves” if you can.

It doesn’t really matter how you take the movie. You can either accept it as a shallow revenge story full of blood and sentiment or as the rather deeper and murkier thing I suspect it is. It will still be gripping and emotionally moving. The climax has the law-enforcer breaking the law in search of insurance that the law will prevail. Dirty Harry with a motive. Ironic.

Review By: rmax304823

Other Information:

Original Title Walking Tall
Release Date 1973-02-22
Release Year 1973

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 5 min (125 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Biography, Crime
Director Phil Karlson
Writer Mort Briskin, Stephen Downing, John Michael Hayes
Actors Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Leif Garrett
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Mitchell BNCR
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Walking Tall 1973 123movies
Original title Walking Tall
TMDb Rating 6.726 93 votes

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