Another hot take - I watched White Lightning last week. It is the first of Burt's "Gator" movies. Smokey and the Bandit is a funnier, cleaned up version of White Lightning which is a pretty bleak movie. So much of these two shows are the same. He even has the same job, bird doggin' for a moonshine runner who just happens to look a lot like Jerry Reed. Same abusive sheriff, stupid deputies, Hal Needham car stunts, etc.
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