W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings is a 1975 American comedy film directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Burt Reynolds, and written by Thomas Rickman.

Bright is an easygoing crook who robs only SOS ("Southland Oil System") gas stations.

The SOS chairman sends for Bible-thumping ex-lawman Deacon John Wesley Gore to catch W.W.

Meanwhile, W.W. and the newly outfitted band go to see Country Bull Jenkins, a highly successful singer-songwriter.

He is ready to separate from the Dancekings in order to shield them, but then he hears them rehearsing Wayne's new song.

He persuades Country Bull to listen to it; the man is so impressed, he puts them on the Grand Ole Opry radio show.

[5] Reynolds approved John Avildsen on the basis of a recommendation from Jack Lemmon, who had worked with the director on Save the Tiger.

It is a four-door sedan painted gold with black hood and side accents and chrome trim.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times enjoyed the film: [Y]ou may find John G. Avildsen's W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings an unexpectedly pleasant surprise ... One of the charms of the movie is the casual way it seems to discover its story while it wanders from one minor crisis to the next ...

[11] [D]irector John G. Avildsen seems to be going for some kind of mythic meaning larger than the movie can hold.

If only the movie had stayed closer to street level, had engaged itself with the lives of W.W. and the band, it might have been more successful.

Tarantino said in 2003: I found out later that Thomas Rickman was so disgusted with what they did with his movie that he asked to write the novelization, so that one person out there would know what it was that he intended.