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Fried-chicken mogul Clyde Torkle, along with his chauffeur, Arnold, and newly appointed director of marketing and public relations, Pembrook Feeny, convince Stroker and his chief mechanic, Lugs Harvey, to sign up with him.
Stroker Ace: Directed by Hal Needham. With Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors, Parker Stevenson. The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team.
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- Action, Comedy, Romance
- Hal Needham
- 1983-07-01
Bad Boss: Clyde Torkle. Although not overtly abusive toward his employees, he takes great glee out of tormenting Stroker, attempts to use Pembrook’s employment as an opportunity to get into her pants, and threatens to fire Arnold if he loses an impromptu street race to Stroker.
He needs somebody to sponsor his car, and he ends up with Clyde Torkle, a fried-chicken king who is played by Ned Beatty with a low bow in the directions of Col. Sanders and Jackie Gleason. Torkle makes Reynolds paint the slogan Fastest Chicken in the West! on the side of his car.
Fried-chicken mogul Clyde Torkle, along with his chauffeur, Arnold, and newly appointed director of marketing and public relations, Pembrook Feeny, convince Stroker and his chief mechanic, Lugs Harvey, to sign up with him.
When his options for a season drive start to thin dramatically, Stroker signs up with sleazy fried chicken magnate Clyde Torkle (Ned Beatty), and finds himself quickly smitten with Torkle’s promotional director, Pembrook Feeney (Loni Anderson, Reynolds’s real-life partner at the time).
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