It's the final chapter in this chilling, real-life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a good-hearted lawman set on keeping his town safe. Still distraught over his wife's death, he blows up every moonshine still in McNairy county and burns the brothels and whiskey joints to the ground. Having gone too far, he's voted out of office, but that doesn't stop the mob from seeking their revenge. Buford soon discovers how small his town is when he runs out of highway with the mob on his trail.
Acting
Bo Svenson's exhausted, hollowed-out final performance
Direction
Starrett's grimy, personal stake-burning sequences
Practical Effects
Real explosions, real fire, real destruction
Director
Jack Starrett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Buford Pusser died in a suspicious car crash in 1974; this film imagines an alternate survival.
The Walking Tall trilogy helped cement the 'vigilante cop' archetype that dominated '70s American cinema.
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