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Gator (1976)

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Having created the character of Gator McKlusky in 1973's White Lightning, Burt Reynolds reprises the role in the appropriately titled Gator. Once again, ex-convict McKluskey is strong-armed into helping the feds nab a dangerous criminal, who turns out to be an old high-school chum (Jerry Reed). He is aided and abetted by TV reporter Aggie Maybank (Lauren Hutton) and comedy-relief FBI agent Irving Greenfield (Jack Weston). Talk-show host Mike Douglas makes his film debut as a Jimmy Carter-style

PG, 1 hr. 55 min.

Action & Adventure

Jul 15, 2003

MGM Home Entertainment

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Good-ol'-boy humor is my least favorite form of masculine love-antagonism in the cinema, but even a generous-minded peckerwood ought to weary rapidly of the snorting, yokking, hooting interplay...

December 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Parallax View | Comment
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the film's pace is deadly slow and aimless

July 21, 2006 Comment

Yahoo! It's Burn (again) in a fast car!

June 15, 2005 Comment
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I like Burt Reynolds. Sue me.

July 6, 2009
webalina

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Three years after the hixploitation moonshining classic "White Lightning", Burt Reynolds's again portrayed Gator McKlusky in "Gator", but this time he was behind the camera as well in his directorial debut. Anyway, this time around Gator has just been released from federal prison for moonshining when he is asked to

September 3, 2008
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