REAL AMERICAN HERO (DVD) DVD

A Real American Hero
This made-for-TV actioner was designed as the pilot for a series based on the popular Walking Tall films of the 1970s. This time out, a young Brian Dennehy is cast as the stick-wielding, scrupulously honest Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser (played in the films by Joe Don Baker and Bo Svenson), with Forrest Tucker repeating his role from Walking Tall: The Final Chapter as Pusser's father. After chasing down a speeding car, Pusser is disgusted to find that its teenaged occupants (two of them dead, two blinded for life) are stoned out of their minds on bad bootleg hooch. Bypassing due process and other such legal niceties, Pusser goes on a one-man rampage of destruction in order to square accounts with the evil disco owner-cum-moonshiner responsible for the tragedy. Making things difficult is the fact that one of the villains of the piece is also one of Buford's oldest pals. A Real American Hero made its CBS debut on December 9, 1978. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast Brian Dennehy as Buford Pusser

Crew Lou Antonio - Director Houseley Stevenson, Jr. - Editor Charles A. Pratt - Executive Producer Walter Scharf - Composer (Music Score) Don Black - Composer (Music Score) Jack Poplin - Production Designer Charles Correll - Cinematographer Samuel A. Peeples - Teleplay By

A Real American Hero
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General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: Sound Processing: Additional Features: Interactive menus Scene Index Cast bio Quiz MPAA Rating: G DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: Content Length: 94 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. Catching Up 2. At Danny's 3. Warning 4. Complaints 5. Family Time 6. Back to Work 7. Enforcement 8. Getting Even 9. After Danny 10. At the Dance