A smiling holdup man, acting out of general generosity and specific lust, promotes a one-woman, four-man country-western band to a debut at the Grand Ole Opry. The Nashville milieu and the self-glamorizing Robin Hood hero, who idolizes Errol Flynn, yield some fairly funny mimicry -- of 1950s pop music, of radio religion, and of Hollywood melodrama. Best moment: a Red Sovine-style talk-song, "Mama Was a Convict," written by Tom Rickman and Tim McIntire, and mouthed by Ned Beatty with steel guitars whining sensitively in the background. Burt Reynolds, unfortunately, dominates the screen with his lamentable tendency to direct his charm more toward the moviegoer than toward his fellow players. Conny Van Dyke, Jerry Reed, and Art Carney; directed by John G. Avildsen. (1975) — Duncan Shepherd
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