Word: mayhem
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...protagonists (portrayed vigorously by Max Baer, who served as producer and helped with the scenario as well) is an atavistic sheriff, the sort of gun-toting good ol' boy who gives law enforcement down South a certain cave man cast. The sheriff represents just that sort of legalized mayhem that made Walking Tall such a big hit, and one might expect that Macon County Line would try to follow along in its prede cessor's misshapen footprints, combining the nostalgia of Graffiti with the violence of Walking Tall...
Escaping the Mayhem...
...lead group, Tom Morrisey, Peter Chu, Geoff White, and Kent Backey, escaped the mayhem and pedalled on to finish in that order. John Haury led a pack reassembled from the debris. The group chased the leaders, but was unable to makeup the lost ground...
When Perón appeared on a balcony overlooking the square, he disdainfully observed the mayhem beneath him, abandoned his prepared text, and called the demonstrators "jerks." "Today we see that a bunch of adolescents would claim more merit than those who have fought for 20 years," he declared. In pro test, the leftists began leaving the plaza -closely pursued by right-wing Peronistas, who chased them down side streets, beating them with bamboo staves. The day's toll: 90 wounded...
...Seven-Ups' story of mixed roots in Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used to lubricate the gore machine. The Laughing Policeman is most barbarous of all: it primes viewers for two hours of pointless mayhem in the very first scene, when a nameless killer mows down eight strangers on a bus. (If the action slows at other points, Rosenberg tosses in a woman jumping to a splattered sidewalk death or a stoolie's face getting flushed in a urinal...