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| Genre: | Action |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Rating: | PG |
| Cast: | Burt Reynolds, Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Lauren Hutton |
Having created the character of Gator McKlusky in 1973's White Lightning, Burt Reynolds reprises the role in the appropriately titled Gator. Once again, ex-convict McKluskey is strong-armed into helping the feds nab a dangerous criminal, who turns out to be an old high-school chum (Jerry Reed). He is aided and abetted by TV reporter Aggie Maybank (Lauren Hutton) and comedy-relief FBI agent Irving Greenfield (Jack Weston). The film's high point occurs when Reynolds virtually drops character to kid Hutton about the famous gap in her teeth; the low point is the senseless murder of one of the film's most likeable characters. Talk-show host Mike Douglas makes his film debut as a Jimmy Carter-style governor. Gator offers up a strange mixture of zany slapstick and overstated violence; audiences in 1976 were delighted with both elements. Hal Erickson
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