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Billy Howard - The Disco Cops (1976)
I can only apologise...
Gray Morrow
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The Rookie star Nathan Fillion posed for PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive issue and talked about his self-care routine, where he gets his confiden
Nathan Fillion was chosen for People Magazine’s SMA issue - which I mean cool for The Rookie but…
Hello Eric Winter?! 😍⬇️ IYKYK. (Just saying)
Ok I get that gunshots are loud irl but why does The Rookie have to make them so loud!?!? I keep having to put down the volume then up again when they talk. I hate when shows do this.
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Redneck Sheriffs #5 of 5 - Ernest Borgnine as Sheriff Lyle Wallace (AKA ‘Dirty Lyle’)
My last post of 2020 concludes my list of favourite redneck Sheriffs of the film world. As a lover of country and western music and big rigs, it should come as no surprise that the 1978 classic Convoy is a favourite of mine. When it comes to redneck Sheriffs, ‘Dirty Lyle’ is my sentimental favourite. He was another provincial rogue with an axe to grind. In his case, he had a particular hatred for truckdrivers and the fact that they earned quite a bit more than he did. This was the impetus behind Convoy, itself based on the 1975 smash hit song of the same name and directed by action movie legend Sam Peckinpah.
In a truckstop diner encounter with the protagonists (pictured at the top), Dirty Lyle comes across as a particularly loathsome figure when he picks on black driver Spider Mike (played by later stand-up comic Franklyn Ajaye). When Spider Mike hits back, all hell breaks loose. A chase ensues which seems comical at first but soon snowballs way out of control. The self-serving news media and a scheming politician (cult favourite Seymour Cassel) join the mayhem, each with ulterior motives but eager to appear sympathetic with the grievances of the growing numbers of truckdrivers who tag along. In the meantime, Dirty Lyle spends the middle third of the movie hovering on the outer fringes of the chaos, patiently awaiting his opportunity to exact revenge. As the song goes, “watch for his chance to strike...”
Like all good action movies, the villain eventually takes centre stage and gets to strut his stuff in spectacular style. Dirty Lyle is so uncontrollable in the finish that even the police manning the Mexican border roadblock run for cover after he commandeers an M60 machine gun mounted atop the National Guard’s M42 Duster tank. He is a picture of pure, boiling hatred as he tenaciously guns down the local hero, Martin ‘Rubber Duck’ Penwald (Kris Kristofferson). This is the kind of thing Will Teasle desperately wanted to do to John Rambo but never received the chance.
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The late screen legend Ernest Borgnine was just the man to give life to a charismatic villain like Lyle Wallace. Dirty Lyle was just one in a long line of sadistic villains that Borgnine played with great relish in a lengthy and varied career. Earlier the same decade, he played the cruel train conductor Shack in Emperor Of The North Pole. He vowed to kill any freeloading hobos that tried to bum a ride on his trains and ended up in a battle of wills with the vagrant played superbly by Lee Marvin (pictured above).
Borgnine’s portly figure, piercing eyes and gravelly voice made him the ideal choice to play villainous parts. But Ernest was far from being a one-trick pony and was a multi-faceted actor. He initially came to prominence in the mid-fifties in Marty, a tender love story in which he played the lonely butcher of the movie’s title. Early the following decade, he branched out and showed the world he had quite a flair for comedy when he became a household name in the riotous TV sitcom McHale’s Navy. It is one of Hollywood’s lovely ironies that the hateful Dirty Lyle was portrayed by one of the warmest, most lovable celebrities in showbusiness. Everyone who knew and worked with Borgnine recalled a benevolent, heartwarming figure who is sadly missed following his passing in early July 2012 at the age of 95.
The last two shots show Ernest posing with his longtime stunt double Bob Herron. It was Bob behind the wheel when Lyle’s stolen Chevy swerves off the highway and smashes through a billboard and the top of a barn. Bob and Ernest met for the last time in September 2011 while Ernest was filming Love's Christmas Journey at the old Little House On The Prairie TV series set in Simi Valley, CA.
Redneck Sheriffs #4 of 5 - Ned Beatty as Sheriff J.C. Connors
Sheriff Connors is the antagonist and villain of the 1972 cult classic White Lightning. Bobby ‘Gator’ McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) is serving time in an Arkansas prison for trafficking moonshine when he learns his younger brother Donny was murdered and that Sheriff J.C. Connors (Ned Beatty) was responsible. Gator knows the Sheriff is taking money from local moonshiners, so he agrees to go undercover for the Federal police, who want to use him to expose the Sheriff. Of course, exposing the corrupt lawman is not what Gator really has in mind. He had promised to look after his brother and his murder makes him feel as though he let everyone down. We know from the very beginning that the single-minded pursuit of revenge is all that Gator cares about.
Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty had already worked together on the John Boorman classic Deliverance. On that occasion, Beatty was equally effective playing a victim when his character Bobby was raped by an inbred hillbilly thug. Burt was sufficiently impressed with his costar to insist on working with him again when the White Lightning project came along. Instead of working to elicit sympathy this time around, Beatty establishes J.C. Connors as a charismatic villain right from the unforgettable opening scene.
“It was a well done film,” Burt Reynolds said in an interview. “Joe Sergeant is an excellent director. He's very, very good with actors. And it had some marvellous people in it whom nobody had seen before. Ned Beatty for example. I had to fight like hell to get Ned in the film." After seeing Beatty’s unforgettable performance, I’m so glad he fought for his casting.
