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...
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The Gates Of Cimino
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...
