31-421: Walking Tall may refer to: Walking Tall (1973 film) , a 1973 film Walking Tall Part 2 , (a.k.a. The Legend of Buford Pusser ), a 1975 sequel to Walking Tall Walking Tall: Final Chapter , a 1977 sequel to Walking Tall Part 2 . A Real American Hero (film) , a 1978 made-for-television remake of Walking Tall (1973). Walking Tall (TV series) ,
62-536: A Native American word in an Algonquian language (perhaps Powhatan ). It is a shortening of pockerchicory , pocohicora , or a similar word, which may be the name for the hickory tree's nut, or may be a milky drink made from such nuts. The genus name Carya is Ancient Greek : κάρυον , káryon , meaning " nut ". Hickories are temperate to subtropical forest trees with pinnately compound leaves and large nuts . Most are deciduous , but one species ( C. sinensis , syn. Annamocarya sinensis ) in southeast Asia
93-405: A cult film with two direct sequels of its own, a TV movie , a brief TV series and a remake that had its own two sequels . Buford Pusser, at his wife Pauline's behest, retires from the professional wrestling ring, and moves back to Tennessee to start a logging business with his father Carl Pusser. With a friend, Pusser visits a gambling and prostitution establishment "The Lucky Spot", and
124-409: A television movie titled A Real American Hero: Buford Pusser , starring Brian Dennehy as the title character. The film is set in 1967 and focused on real-life Sheriff Buford Pusser, who goes after a criminal who has killed young people with his illegal moonshine . In 2004, a remake starring professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was made. Although it used elements from Pusser's life and
155-533: A 100 gram (3.5 oz) reference amount, dried hickory nuts supply 657 calories , and are a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value , DV) of several B vitamins and dietary minerals , especially manganese at 220% DV. An extract from shagbark hickory bark is used in an edible syrup similar to maple syrup , with a slightly bitter, smoky taste. The Cherokee people would produce a green dye from hickory bark, which they used to dye cloth. When this bark
186-426: A 1981 television series adaptation of the films of the same name Walking Tall (2004 film) , a remake of the 1973 film of the same name Walking Tall: The Payback , a 2007 sequel to the 2004 film Walking Tall Walking Tall: Lone Justice , a 2007 sequel to Walking Tall: The Payback See also [ edit ] Walk Tall (disambiguation) Standing Tall (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
217-418: A crooked town; others denounce him as a bully willing to break some laws to uphold others. Pusser is betrayed by one of his deputies, and is attacked several times. Finally, Pauline and Pusser are ambushed in their car. Pauline is killed and Pusser is seriously injured. Pusser is admitted to the hospital after being shot, and while still in a neck-and-face cast, attends his wife's funeral. Afterward, Pusser rams
248-559: A member of Eastern North American landscapes, however its range has contracted and Carya is no longer extant west of the Rocky Mountains . Fossils of early hickory nuts show simpler, thinner shells than modern species with the exception of pecans , suggesting that the trees gradually developed defenses to rodent seed predation. During this time, the genus had a distribution across the Northern Hemisphere, but
279-513: A sheriff cruiser through the front doors of the Lucky Spot, killing two of his would-be assassins. As Pusser leaves with two deputies, the townspeople arrive and begin throwing the gambling tables out into the parking lot. They light a bonfire as an overwhelmed Pusser wipes tears from his eyes. Walking Tall was a box-office smash. Produced on a budget of $ 500,000, the film grossed over $ 40 million, earning $ 10 million in theatrical rentals in
310-404: Is evergreen . Hickory flowers are small, yellow-green catkins produced in spring. They are wind-pollinated and self-incompatible . The fruit is a globose or oval nut, 2–5 cm (0.8–2.0 in) long and 1.5–3 cm (0.6–1.2 in) diameter, enclosed in a four- valved husk , which splits open at maturity. The nut shell is thick and bony in most species, but thin in a few, notably
341-480: Is beaten up after catching the house cheating at craps . Pusser is seriously injured with a knife and receives over 200 stitches. He complains to the sheriff , but is ignored, and soon becomes aware of the rampant corruption in McNairy County. Later, working at his father's lumber mill, Pusser makes a club out of a tree branch. Late one night, Pusser waits until after "The Lucky Spot" is closed, and beats up
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#1732797686047372-410: Is contentious against the incumbent sheriff, who is killed trying to run Pusser off the road. Pusser is elected, and becomes famous for being incorruptible and intolerant of crime, and for his array of four-foot hickory clubs , which he uses to great effect in dispatching criminals and destroying their clandestine gambling dens and illegal distilleries . Some residents praise Pusser as an honest cop in
403-479: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Walking Tall (1973 film) Walking Tall is a 1973 American neo-noir biographical vigilante action film based on the life of Buford Pusser , a professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee , played by Joe Don Baker . The film was directed by Phil Karlson . It has become
434-517: Is hard, stiff, dense and shock resistant. There are woods stronger than hickory and woods that are harder, but the combination of strength, toughness, hardness, and stiffness found in hickory wood is not found in any other commercial wood. Hickory is therefore used in a number of items requiring these properties, such as tool handles, bows , wheel spokes, walking sticks , drumsticks and wood flooring . Baseball bats were formerly made of hickory, but are now more commonly made of ash ; however, it
465-495: Is replacing ash as the wood of choice for Scottish shinty sticks. Hickory was also extensively used for the construction of early aircraft. Due to its grain structure, hickory is more susceptible to moisture absorption than other species of wood, and is therefore more prone to shrinkage, warping or swelling with changes in humidity. Hickory is also highly prized for wood-burning stoves and chimineas , as its density and high energy content make it an efficient fuel. Hickory wood
496-570: Is saying something very important to many people, and it is saying it with accomplished artistry. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that, despite disliking the film, whose final scene he likened to "a nice KKK bonfire," he could "admire the manner in which it manipulates its audience through various notable clichés." Judith Crist of New York Magazine wrote: " Walking Tall grabs you where trash and violence invariably do, with excellent performers, shrewd plotting, and pacing." Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club , writing in 2002, describes
527-501: Is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species. These include: The hickory leaf stem gall phylloxera ( Phylloxera caryaecaulis ) also uses the hickory tree as a food source. Phylloxeridae are related to aphids and have a similarly complex life cycle. Eggs hatch in early spring and the galls quickly form around the developing insects. Phylloxera galls may damage weakened or stressed hickories, but are generally harmless. Deformed leaves and twigs can rain down from
558-633: The Pleistocene Ice Age beginning 2 million years ago obliterated it from Europe. In Anatolia, the genus appears to have disappeared only in the early Holocene , probably related to human disturbance. The distribution of Carya in North America also contracted and it completely disappeared from the continent west of the Rocky Mountains . It is likely that the genus originated in North America, and later spread to Europe and Asia. The genus Carya (not to be confused with Careya in
589-754: The Cherokee in Kanuchi soup, but more often edible oil would be extracted through crushing the nuts and then either straining or boiling the remains. Shagbark and shellbark hickory, along with pecan , are regarded by some as the finest nut trees. Pecans are the most important nut tree native to North America. When cultivated for their nuts , clonal ( grafted ) trees of the same cultivar cannot pollinate each other because of their self-incompatibility. Two or more cultivars must be planted together for successful pollination . Seedlings (grown from hickory nuts) will usually have sufficient genetic variation. Hickory wood
620-598: The Lecythidaceae) is in the walnut family, Juglandaceae . In the APG system , this family is included in the order Fagales . Several species are known to hybridize, with around nine accepted, named hybrids. Carya sect. Sinocarya C. sinensis has sometimes been split out in a separate genus as Annamocarya sinensis , but not by Plants of the World Online , as genetic data support it being embedded within
651-478: The United States and Canada. The film played in rural areas before moving to larger cities, starting off slowly, but becoming a success through word-of-mouth. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 75% based on reviews from 12 critics. On Metacritic , it has a score of 60% based on reviews from seven critics. Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice wrote: "Like it or not, Walking Tall
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#1732797686047682-495: The film as "an ultraviolent revenge fantasy" and "a masterpiece of over-the-top unintentional hilarity" and highly recommends the film, calling it an "unconscionably good time". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The original Walking Tall was a hit, but the sequels, Walking Tall Part 2 (September 28, 1975), and Walking Tall: Final Chapter (August 10, 1977), both starring Bo Svenson , were far less profitable. On December 9, 1978, CBS aired
713-511: The fruit to be a nut. The oldest fossils attributed to Carya are Cretaceous pollen grains from Mexico and New Mexico . Fossil and molecular data suggest the genus Carya may have diversified during the Miocene . Modern Carya first appear in Oligocene strata 34 million years ago. Recent discoveries of Carya fruit fossils further support the hypothesis that the genus has long been
744-727: The original Walking Tall , many things were changed. Johnson's character's name was now Chris Vaughn, the sheriff is trying to stop the selling of illegal drugs instead of illegal moonshine, and the film's setting became semirural Kitsap County, Washington , although it was filmed in Squamish, British Columbia , Canada. Two sequels to the remake were produced, and released in 2007: Walking Tall: The Payback and Walking Tall: Lone Justice , both made in Dallas , Texas, and released directly to DVD. These sequels starred Kevin Sorbo as Nick Prescott,
775-523: The other Asian Carya . Carya sect. Carya – typical hickories Carya sect. Apocarya – pecans Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China , Indochina , and northeastern India ( Assam ), and twelve are native to North America, of which eleven occur in the United States, four in Mexico (of which one, C. palmeri , endemic there), and five extending into southern Canada . Hickory
806-494: The pecan ( C. illinoinensis ); it is divided into two halves, which split apart when the seed germinates . Some fruit are borderline and difficult to categorize. Hickory ( Carya ) nuts and walnut ( Juglans ) nuts, both in the family Juglandaceae , grow within an outer husk; these fruit are sometimes considered to be drupes or drupaceous nuts, rather than true botanical nuts. "Tryma" is a specialized term for such nut-like drupes. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group however consider
837-420: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Walking Tall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walking_Tall&oldid=930574633 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
868-435: The same thugs who left him for dead. The next day, Pusser is arrested; he represents himself at trial. At one point, he rips off his shirt and shows the jury his scars. He informs them, "If you let them do this to me and get away with it, then you're giving them the eternal right to do the same damn thing to any one of you!" The jury finds Pusser not guilty, and he decides to clean up the county, and runs for sheriff. The campaign
899-551: The son of the town's sheriff, who takes the law into his own hands when his father is killed in a suspicious car accident. Hickory tree Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya , which includes 19 species accepted by Plants of the World Online . Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China , Indochina , and northeastern India ( Assam ), and twelve are native to North America . A number of hickory species are used for their edible nuts or for their wood. The name "hickory" derives from
930-491: The tree in the spring as squirrels break off infected tissue and eat the galls, possibly for the protein content or because the galls are fleshy and tasty to the squirrels. The pecan gall curculio ( Conotrachelus elegans ) is a true weevil species also found feeding on galls of the hickory leaf stem gall phylloxera. The banded hickory borer ( Knulliana cincta ) is also found on hickories. Dried hickory nuts are 3% water, 18% carbohydrates , 13% protein , and 64% fats . In
961-505: Was mixed with maple bark, it produced a yellow dye pigment. The ashes of burnt hickory wood were traditionally used to produce a strong lye (potash) fit for soapmaking . The nuts of some species are palatable, while others are bitter and only suitable for animal feed. Hickory nuts were a significant food source for indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands of North America since the middle Archaic period. They were used by