WALKING TALL opens. Dir. Phil Karlson. Written by Mort Briskin, Stephen Downing and John Michael Hayes. 1960s-set bio-pic with Joe Don Baker as crusading, baseball bat-wielding sheriff waging one man war against crime & corruption in small Tennessee town. Scrappy, low-budget, redneck bone-cruncher becomes box-office smash. Co-starring Elizabeth Hartman.