been watching a lot of these lately...

here's the type of flicks i'm talking about:

any which way but loose
six pack
smokey and the bandit
stroker ace
walking tall
macon county line
white lightning
nashville
kidco

got any recommendations?

I watched Gator this past weekend.

'Gator'
'WW and the Dixie Dance Kings'
'The Last American Hero'
'Lolly-Madonna XXX' (excellent film that is sadly unknown to many, I'm not sure if it was ever released on DVD)

Those leap to mind.

Several different 'Walking Tall' films, Joe Don did a few, Bo Svenson, etc.

wow Stroker Ace AND Stroker Ace!

Was there a reboot?

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Bobbie Jo & The Outlaw

Yentl

A few I liked that haven't been mentioned yet:

Fireball 500
Country Blue
Thunder & Lightning
Poor Pretty Eddie

Wonder if Nashville Girl will ever get a DVD release...

Great trailer too. "Now you're gonna work for me and you're gonna [BLEEP] me untill I tell you you're finished!"

Southern Comfort (1981, dir by Walter Hill)
Doc Hollywood

Two Thousand Maniacs!

Cockfighter, which would be a perfect movie if Richard B. Schull, a fine actor but badly miscast, weren't in it.

Wise Blood, filmed in Macon, GA, which is perfect.

It's from the 1960s but To Kill a Mockingbird deserves mention.

The Beguiled is set in the deep South (Spanish moss country) during the Civil War.

Reflections in a Golden Eye is a prime example of hothouse Southern Gothic, also from the 1960s though.

None of these are really drive-in type movies though (but then neither is Nashville).

Last Picture Show is more on the artistic / Academy Award side, but it's one of my all-time favorites.

Paris, Texas also.

both are Southern... not so much "fried" i guess?

A Small Town In Texas
Buster and Bille
Ode To Billy Joe
White Line Fever
Convoy
Great Smokey Roadblock

Moonrunners (inspiration for the Dukes of Hazzard)

I saw this on broadcast a couple of days ago. Wish it would get a dvd release



Bernadette Peters & Victoria Principal

Dixie Dynamite

Wow, most of the titles I wanted to give are already here. Awesome list, folks.

Now there's one little ol' double feature you red-necked **********s done clean forgot about:

A Roger Corman drive-in double bill of
MOONSHINE COUNTY EXPRESS (John Saxon, Susan Howard, Maureen McCormick and Claudia Jennings! Plus William Conrad as the corrupt portly sheriff)
THE BLACK OAK CONSPIRACY with Albert Salmi and one of the Vint bros. (Jesse, I think)

I saw that double bill at a neighborhood theater in the Bronx back when multiplexes were all old single-screen theaters carved into three or four screens and AIP and New World had a direct pipeline into these theaters. Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Another similarly-themed double feature from that period: Burt Reynolds in both HOOPER and W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCE KINGS. (The latter took itself a little too seriously.)

Also, a little more high-end in this genre, two by director Jack Starrett:

THE GRAVY TRAIN (robbery caper with Stacy Keach, Frederic Forrest and Margot Kidder)
RACE WITH THE DEVIL (Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and their wives ride their campers right into devil worshippers' territory in Texas)

Also, one could argue that THE LONGEST YARD (1974) is related to this genre.

P.S. Interesting that this board censors a common phrase from that era--you heard it in THE WILD BUNCH, among several other films. It's woodpecker with "wood" and "pecker" switched. What, does the Redneck Anti-Defamation League find that word offensive?

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. (1980)

Streaming at Netflix.

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Soggy...0&trkid=438381

I'll admit that I'm not too well-versed in this subgenre, but I do love most of the films you posted, riot. I especially love the Burt Reynolds flicks and Walking Tall.

Yeah that is most odd.

This is as close as I can get:

pecker-wood

The Sugarland Express (aka Spielberg's first "real" feature film) belongs in this group.

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings is a good one too.
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Boggy Creek trilogy