I'd add In the Heat of the Night, I Walk the Line (1970 Gregory Peck and Ginger Wells, not the Johnny Cash biopic, though Cash does a lot of the music for Peck's film), and "Heart of Dixie" to the list.
In the Heat of the Night is filmed and set in Mississippi in 1967, I believe around Drew, MS. Hands down, IMO, the best southern fried movie of them all. Probably the most successful as well, though Walking Tall can certainly hold it's own.
I Walk the Line shows a little more of the mountain side of the south. Filmed partly in Tennessee, partly in California, it's set in east Tennessee and a pretty good interpretation of average southern/Appalachain life of the era. Solid cast, nice/realistic locations, and a pretty good movie overall, not an actioner like Walking Tall or Gator, not even as much as In the Heat of the Night, but still worth watching.
Finally, Heart of Dixie was filmed in 1988-89 in Oxford, MS. It's set in 1957 at a fictional southern university, and surronds the lives/attitudes towards racism of a bunch of privileged southern fraternity boys and sorority girls. Very much worth watching if you attended one of the big old time southern schools (UGA, 'Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, LSU) as you can literally relate to the lifestyles.
For a rainy/cold Saturday or Sunday, put these three together with Walking Tall, White Lightning, and the two Macon County movies and enjoy with a bucket of chicken and some Coca - Cola for a 1970's southern review.
No list of southern movies would be complete without a few titles that aren't really grindhouse - tastic though. You have to add Smokey and the Bandit, Steel Magnolias, Driving Miss Daisy, O Brother Where Art Thou, and To Kill a Mockingbird to the list. Smokey and the Bandit might be THE quintessential good ole boy, fun 1970's southern movie and one which isn't so grim as compared to White Lightning or Walking Tall. Steel Magnolias is probably the definitive movie for southern women, and Driving Miss Daisy reminds all true southerners of their grandmother and shows us how life was in Atlanta well after Sherman but before ALL the northerners moved in. O Brother and To Kill a Mockingbird give a glimpse back at the south that existed after reconstruction and before the progressive era after World War II, the south that has largely been forgotten but still retains an important place in the present identity of the south, and for that matter alone are important to this list, and they're great movies as well.
I still haven't seen Tick Tick Tick, worth watching, IYO?
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