Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977)

Director:

Jack Starrett

Writers:

Howard B. Kreitsek (screenplay) and
Samuel A. Peeples (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

31 August 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama

Tagline:

"Buford Pusser... Now there was a man!"

Plot:

This is the story of Buford Pusser's final days, not only of his life but also as Sheriff. It seems...

Plot Keywords:

Third Part | Part Of Trilogy | Spanking | Sequel | Tennessee

Cast

Bo Svenson	...	Buford Pusser
Lurene Tuttle	...	Grandma Pusser
Forrest Tucker	...	Grandpa Pusser
Leif Garrett	...	Mike Pusser
Dawn Lyn	...	Dwana Pusser
Simpson Hemphill	...	Brownard
Sandy McPeak	...	Lloyd Tatum
Logan Ramsey	...	John Witter
Morgan Woodward	...	The Boss
Clay Tanner	...	O.Q. Teal
Bruce Glover	...	Deputy Grady
David Adams	...	Robbie Teal
Michael Allen Honaker	...	Udell Teal
Vance Davis	...	Aaron
Libby Boone	...	Pusser's Secretary (Joan)

Also Known As:

The Man in the Back Seat
Walking Tall: The Final Chapter (USA) (alternative title)

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Company:

Bing Crosby Productions

Trivia:

When the movie producer comes to the Pusser house to talk to Buford about making a movie, the old red 1968 Chevy truck that was used in the chase scene in Walking Tall (1973) can be seen.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Buford Pusser: I had to stand up for myself alone, and you saw what they did to me... Until all men can stand up for what they believe in, THE SAME DAMN THING CAN HAPPEN TO ANY ONE OF YOU!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Giant Spider Invasion (#9.10)" (1997)

Not enough story to justify a movie

They had pretty much run out of story by the end of the second film, so making a movie with what was left was kind of redundant. Yet they somehow manage to stretch what was left to an unbelievable length (116 minutes), a lot of which is made of endless and unnecessary footage of people walking from one place to another. A competent editor would have been able to prune not only this filler, but a lot of scenes that don't do anything to the plot, or start subplots that go nowhere.

There was promise in the sequence when Pusser sells his life story to the big screen (including when Pusser tells why he is reluctant to do so) but they don't spend much time in this sequence.

If you don't care about this, and just want to see Pusser swing his bat at heads, you should know there isn't much of that this time around. Most of the movie is just people talking, and it's not interesting talk. If you know what happened to Pusser, then there's no reason for you to see this movie.