Redneck Matinee

Jackie & Dunlap on the late Joe Don Baker in 1973's Walking Tall, the stick hittin', money makin', still bashin', trailer hookin', dice loadin', shirtless testifyin' hit movie that put Pusser on everybody's lips. Discussed: RIP Joe Don Baker, Sheriff Buford Pusser, Phil Karlson, Felton Perry, Walking Tall, Walking Tall Part 2, Walking Tall Part 3, McNairy County, Tennessee, Mississippi, Elizabeth...

Bonus episode! If you Patreon us at $5 or more a month, y'all get a weekly podcast called 20 Extra Minutes with Jackie & Dunlap. We asked  Patreonners for the least-unlistenable ones. Here's one of them! More coming over at the Red State Update podcast. Into it?  http://www.patreon.com/redstateupdate We cover Breaker! Breaker! in Redneck Matinee Episode 6. More info, photos and notes at https://ww...

Jackie and Dunlap on Clint Eastwood's monkey movies Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can. Geoffrey Lewis! Ruth Gordon! Sondra Locke! Toilet Cats! Palimony suits! Ratboy! Mel Tillis! Wild clams! Orangutan sex! Problematic bikers! And stay tuned to the end for the gross, troubling story of the Clydes. Theme by William Sherry Jr. Art by @stephenmullinax Any Which Way You Can and Every...

Chuck Norris stars in Don Hulette's 1977 truckin'/kickin' epic  Breaker! Breaker! , also starring George Murdock, Jack Nance, Terry O'Connor, Miranda Garrison, and The Great John L. Trucking! (Barely.) Kicking! (Plenty!) Armwrestling! (More than you'd think.) Beards and mustaches! (Some, but not on Chuck.) CB talkin'! (Poor.) Dirt bikin'! (Yes! But they even make that weird.) Plus doll bars! Shake...

The late Jan-Michael Vincent stars in Jonathan Kaplan's 1975 ode to honest truckers White Line Fever , also starring Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, Sam Laws, L.Q. Jones, R.G. Armstrong, Dick Miller, and Leigh French. Written by Ken Friedman Trucking is hard! Ernest Borgnine explains Airwolf ! Goober! Gomer! Pot euphemisms! Billy Jack! Walking Tall ! Movin' On ! Merle Haggard! Martin Scorsese! Symbolism!...

Jackie and Dunlap on Sam Peckinpah's 1978 film  Convoy,  starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Madge Sinclair, and Franklyn Ajaye.  C.W. McCall! George "Goober" Lindsey! Speed limits! Jimmy Carter! Coburn directs! The country music charts of 1976! Cocaine! YovnoC! Ernest Borgnine's secret of longevity! Leonard Nimoy! Mannheim Steamroller! James Earl Jones! Ernest raps! Do lions...

Jackie and Dunlap on the greatest movie of all time, 1977's Smokey and the Bandit. Starring the late, great Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry, Enoses Big and Little, Jackie Gleason as Sheriff Buford T. Justice, and Happy as Fred. Dog contests, chimp bites, maid arrests, Star Wars, Tarzan, Coors, and freedom. Theme by William Sherry Jr. Art by  Stephen Mullinax . Patreon !  Twitter...

Jackie and Dunlap explore the 1976 film Gator,  starring both early 70s Burt Reynolds and late 70s superstar Burt Reynolds. Gator McClusky is back! But completely different.   Directed by Burt Reynolds, with Mike Douglas as an anti-semitic Jimmy Carter, Jack Weston as a grimly dispatched comic foil, Lauren Hutton, Alice Ghostley, some cats, some boats, Burton Gilliam, and Jerry Reed in a role that...

Jackie and Dunlap explore the 1973 film White Lightning , starring a pre-mustache Burt Reynolds, a sweat-slicked Ned Beatty, Jennifer Billingsley, and Bo Hopkins. Directed by Jaws IV 's Joseph Sargent and written by gunrunner Bill Norton.  Plus: Burt sings! Spielberg ankles! Pond sex! And the men of Benton, Arkansas get a little Burt hurt. Theme by William Sherry Jr. Art by Stephen Mullinax . Patr...