But conflict arises when small town sheriff with adequate midriff (Jackie Gleason) fears this will result in severe shortage of GSCs in the south. (sbnation.com)
Clancy Brown, a veteran at playing cops and stooges, delights in portraying a classically corrupt small town Sheriff. (rogerebert.com)
There are encounters with a comical predecessor of the KKK (led by a terrifically over the top Don Johnson), a small town sheriff who is not what he seems and, of course, the very proper southern gentleman / Mandingo fighting aficionado and plantation owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio)-- and his right hand plantation man, house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson, stealing every scene he's in in a scary, mean, dangerously funny role). (eclipsemagazine.com)