Gator

Name: Gator
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Released: August 20, 1976
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Alice Ghostley, Burt Reynolds, Burton Gilliam, Dub Taylor, Jack Weston

1976

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United Artists | Release Date: August 20, 1976 | PG

Starring: Alice Ghostley, Burt Reynolds, Burton Gilliam, Dub Taylor, Jack Weston, Jerry Reed, John Steadman, Lauren Hutton, Mike Douglas, William Engesser

Summary: Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.

Director: Burt Reynolds

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime

Rating: PG

Runtime: 115 min

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Staff (Not Credited)

Too much of this is tedious, rather like off-cuts from his recent movies, but the reasonable photography and good action material help. Country singer Jerry Reed makes a good heavy, and when Reynolds keeps it simple, his direction suggests the makings of a modest craftsman. Read full review

Richard Eder

Messy little melodrama of Southern corruption. [25 Aug 1976, p.46]

Molly Haskell

Structurally, Gator is a bit of a mess, largely because of the civilizing and romantic influence Reynolds has brought to the randy domain of the redneck action film. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

This follow-up to White Lightning never takes itself seriously, veering as it does through many incompatible dramatic and violent moods for nearly two hours. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

An entertaining piece of good ol' boy fluff with plenty of car and boat chases. Read full review

Jack Kroll

Gator is sloppily directed by Reynolds himself and filled with anti-ethnic humor that Reynolds has picked up from all those guest shots on the talk shows with Don Rickles et al. [13 Sep 1976, p.89]

Roger Ebert

Gator is yet another Good Ol' Movie, and not, I fear, the summer's last. If only it had a Good Ol' Plot worth a damn, it might have even been a halfway tolerable ol' movie. Read full review

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