Walking Tall
by Phil Karlson
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Actor: Brenda Benet, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans, Joe Don Baker, Noah Beery Jr.Director: Phil Karlson
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Jack A. Marta
Producer: Charles A. Pratt
Producer: Joel Briskin
Producer: Mort Briskin
Writer: Mort Briskin
Writer: John Michael Hayes
Writer: Stephen Downing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Walking Tall
Movie Review: Get rid of all the irrelevant reviews.
Summary: 5 Stars
For some unknown reason Amazon allows reviews that have no relation to the product that it is selling.
This DVD is a perfect example, released in 2007 by Paramount the DVD has reviews on the 1st page dated 1999 and 2001. The both refer to an earlier (inferior) release by another manufacturer.
Let's correct this situation and only talk about the quality.
The 2007 Paramount release;
Run Time = 02:04:55
Chapters = 20
Video Bit Rate = 8Mbps
Audio = Dolby Digital 5.1 @ 448Kbps
Aspect Ratio = Wide Screen 16:9, The picture has been cropped Top & Bottom, however, there is more picture Left and Right (when compared to the 4:3 Rhino release).
The 1997 Rhino release;
Run Time = 02:05:48
Chapters = 34
Video Bit Rate = 6Mbps
Audio = Dolby Digital 2.0 @ 192Kbps
Aspect Ratio = Full Screen 4:3
The Paramount release has a sharper brighter picture, natural colour and better flesh tones. The Rhino release has cropped sides, is blurred, is dark and looks like it was probably taken from a VHS tape.
I am very happy to finally have a good quality print of this film.
So any reviewer that complains about the poor quality is definitely not talking about this 2007 Paramount release.
Summary of Walking Tall
Based on true events in the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who "removes" corruption in his county with a four-foot-long wooden club. When the criminals attack his family, Buford shoots a whorehouse manager in the head and runs hillbilly gangsters over with his car.Weirdly marketed as a right-wing screed upon its initial release in 1973, Walking Tall is really a tragic, shockingly violent post-noir film based on various legends surrounding real-life Southern sheriff Buford Pusser. Joe Don Baker (The Natural) gives a powerful performance as Pusser, who took on determined forces of crime and corruption in his town at great personal expense. Directed with an intentionally crude force by Phil Karlson (Kansas City Confidential), one of the toughest filmmakers of the 1950s, the film's grimness does not let up, but in the end it is more likely to break hearts than turn stomachs. --Tom Keogh
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