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Herbert "Cowboy" Coward, the Toothless Mountain Man in ‘Deliverance,' Dies at 85
hollywood reporter ^ | 1/25/24 | Rhett Bartlett

Posted on 01/25/2024 11:32:19 AM PST by central_va

Herbert "Cowboy" Coward, who as the sadistic toothless man in John Boorman's Deliverance terrorized canoeists and audiences alike with the chilling line, "He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he?," has been killed in a car accident. He was 85.

Coward died Wednesday when the Nissan he was driving was struck by a pickup truck driven by a 16-year-old in Haywood County, North Carolina, North Carolina State Highway Patrol officials told WLOS-TV.

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To: Clemenza

Every Hollywood movie about the south slanders the daylights out of southerners.


41 posted on 01/25/2024 12:37:08 PM PST by albie
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To: Red Badger
Yes. Reynolds got the guy a part in the movie.

He knew him long before.

Apparently Cowboy couldn't read, either.

42 posted on 01/25/2024 12:39:22 PM PST by boop (YOU sit in YOUR seat!)
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To: Melinda in TN

For some reason, I watch a lot of the simple horror films that are pumped out, you know, the ones where the city kids take the shortcut to the rock festival or to college or to vacation or whatever.

A standard horror that city kids face in horror movies are the rural people who usually belong to a Christian based horror cults which are satanic and need the young city people for human sacrifice, and for the truly backwoods people who are more gone than the merely rural, in other words the toothless misshapen inbreds, it is ‘Jesus’ radio, torture and cannibalism.


43 posted on 01/25/2024 12:43:25 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Thanks for the silly personal attack, but you don’t know about the hippies.

If you can find the old original copies of Mother Earth News you could learn something about them.

There weren’t many actual hippies, they were not the college kids and political activists of city life and politics.


44 posted on 01/25/2024 12:47:41 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

I have seen a few of those. IMO, the ultra lib is terrified of rural people. That’s fine with me. They should be afraid. Rural people are extremely nice, but they don’t tolerate dumb libs much. :-)


45 posted on 01/25/2024 12:55:21 PM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: central_va

“Coward; his girlfriend, Bertha Brooks; and two pets, a chihuahua and a squirrel, died at the scene, they said.”

nuff said


46 posted on 01/25/2024 1:10:51 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Melinda in TN

A read that you and many others here would probably enjoy is A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins.

Jenkins was a young man troubled by what he was seeing in his nation and decided to walk across it to see for himself what he would find among the people of America.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=walk+across+america&_sacat=0&_sop=15


47 posted on 01/25/2024 1:12:53 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: BigFreakinToad

LOL, it is an interesting description.


48 posted on 01/25/2024 1:14:14 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: central_va

The only incest I’ve seen is from the Left- John Phillips molesting his daughter MacKenzie, Joe Biden diddling his daughter Ashley, and Ilhan Omar marrying her brother.


49 posted on 01/25/2024 1:18:41 PM PST by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: ansel12

Thanks! The thing that hits me funny is that most of those that hate us because of what they were taught find out they were lied to once they meet us.


50 posted on 01/25/2024 1:19:04 PM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: albie

“Every Hollywood movie about the south slanders the daylights out of southerners.”

And get the accents wrong. I appreciated Anson Mounts in “Hell on Wheels” because he is from Tennesse and got his Mississippi accent pretty much spot on.


51 posted on 01/25/2024 1:19:17 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: ansel12

I don’t think the scene was so much about homosexuality as it was about dominance. The local hillbilly imposing his dominance on the city slicker invading his domain. JMHO.

P.S my mother took me to see this movie when it came out.


52 posted on 01/25/2024 2:05:42 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: VTenigma

There was dominance but only homosexual men have sex with other men, no matter what it is called.

When your group of buddies you hang with is yelling “let’s beat this guy up” or “let’s be really mean to this guy and torture him and destroy his stuff” and then one of them volunteers to get sexually excited and have gay sex with him, then watch out for that buddy.


53 posted on 01/25/2024 2:21:50 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
Is that Joe Scarborough????

Yup, the banjo boy on the bridge.

54 posted on 01/25/2024 2:38:34 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: srmanuel

Who can ever forget, “ you got a pretty mouth” and “squeal like a pig “

It ain’t ever day they find outta towners to replace goats or pigs for sex.


55 posted on 01/25/2024 4:32:59 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: Melinda in TN

Well, if that’s what keeps ‘em from moving here well.....🤷😁


56 posted on 01/25/2024 4:34:59 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: central_va

The film that defined rural America to urban Americans.


57 posted on 01/25/2024 5:29:27 PM PST by TChad
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To: central_va

He was illiterate, which didn’t do no harm to his Show Biz career.

Come to think of it, Jackie Stewart, the “Mod Scot,” is illiterate, too (severely dyslexic), and it didn’t hold him back much.


58 posted on 01/25/2024 8:13:07 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: V_TWIN

💯 They are like illegals. They won’t assimilate to the local culture and want to turn us into what they left.


59 posted on 01/26/2024 5:59:19 AM PST by Melinda in TN
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To: LeoTDB69

Goats, pigs and their sisters and cousins


60 posted on 01/26/2024 8:54:46 AM PST by srmanuel
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