Cinema: Folk Opry

W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS Directed by JOHN G. AVILDSEN Screenplay by THOMAS RICKMAN

W.W. (Burt Reynolds) is a backwoods con man with a predilection for ripping off gas stations belonging to an oil company that has done him wrong in some unspecified way. The Dixie Dancekings are a musical organization that operates about as far up country as you can get without actually becoming a hermit. The former joins the latter —uninvited—as a ploy to elude a cop who has trailed him into a roadhouse where the Dancekings are playing. W.W. has...

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