(HARD DRIVER, Lamont Johnson, US 1973, 100 min.)

then at 9:00 p.m. A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS

(Jack Starrett, US 1976, 95 min.)

Jeff Bridges stars as real-life moonshine-runner turned champion race-car driver in The Last American Hero, another gem of 1970s character-driven cinema co-starring Valerine Perrine, Ned Beatty, and Gary Busey. Then, The Last Picture Show’s Timothy Bottoms stars in A Small Town in Texas as an ex-convict who comes home from jail, only to be railroaded again by a crooked sheriff (Bo Hopkins), who has also stolen his wife (Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry’s Susan George).