Word: smarm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reynolds is cast as a moonshiner offered forgiveness for his sins against the revenue code if he will serve his country as an unofficial undercover agent. Specifically his assignment is to gather information against an erstwhile chum, a hoodlum played with menacing Southern smarm by Jerry Reed. The hood has become the chief source of corruption in one of those corrupt little Southern towns that may only exist in popular fiction, where their function is to focus the otherwise vague regional fears of Northern liberals. In his pursuit of Reed, the reluctant Reynolds becomes involved with an engaging assortment...