Send us a message! Buford Pusser was the larger-than-life Tennessee sheriff whose real-life crackdown on organized crime and moonshining became a 1973 cult classic film, Walking Tall, and later a 2004 remake. His image — a one-man lawman wielding a big stick and an unshakeable moral code — turned him into a folk hero and a convenient template for American vigilante myth-making. The legend has always been messy: celebrated for taking on the Dixie Mafia and corrupt vice networks, yet shadowed b...
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Send us a message! Buford Pusser was the larger-than-life Tennessee sheriff whose real-life crackdown on organized crime and moonshining became a 1973 cult classic film, Walking Tall, and later a 2004 remake. His image — a one-man lawman wielding a big stick and an unshakeable moral code — turned him into a folk hero and a convenient template for American vigilante myth-making. The legend has always been messy: celebrated for taking on the Dixie Mafia and corrupt vice networks, yet shadowed b...
Send us a message! He won an Oscar for playing a man who presided over desperation. Offscreen, he lived it. Gig Young was Hollywood’s charming second fiddle, the witty drunk, the romantic rival, the man who never quite got the girl. But in 1969, he stunned the industry with a searing performance in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, earning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Less than a decade later, he would make headlines again—this time for a murder-suicide that left the world askin...
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Send us a message! Buford Pusser was the larger-than-life Tennessee sheriff whose real-life crackdown on organized crime and moonshining became a 1973 cult classic film, Walking Tall, and later a 2004 remake. His image — a one-man lawman wielding a big stick and an unshakeable moral code — turned him into a folk hero and a convenient template for American vigilante myth-making. The legend has always been messy: celebrated for taking on the Dixie Mafia and corrupt vice networks, yet shadowed b...
