James Best
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Sep 29, 2026
MacGUEST
I've heard it, you know, I've heard of that, that, that, uh, offensive, uh, assault in world war ii you know
Bob MoatsHOST
and matt and mac to be perfectly blunt you come from a part of the state where the only civil war battle actually fought in the state of indiana is where you are yes yes as well as battle of cordon battle of cordon and just a few feet from us where the indiana's greatest thespians that we would know was born james best who played roscoe p yes I was not born to live
MacGUEST
there.
MacGUEST
I lived there for years.
speaker_0HOST
Linda
speaker_1HOST
Haynes, along with James Best, Dabney Coleman and Luke Askew in supporting roles.
speaker_1HOST
And the synopsis, shall I do that?
speaker_0HOST
Yeah, go on.
8 MINS LATER
speaker_1HOST
And then it's basically a bit of a hunt them down.
speaker_1HOST
I like some of the baddies.
speaker_1HOST
There's an interesting quote about James Best initially turned down playing the role of the Texan because he objected to the profanity in the script.
speaker_1HOST
And he eventually agreed to play the part after he learned that both Devane and Lee Jones were attached to the movie.
Shuli EgarHOST
Cooter.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He told me that Denver Pyle, James Best, and Sorrell Booke would triple-team Catherine Bach during breaks in filming.
Shuli EgarHOST
[laughs] Wow, talk about some names you'll never hear again.
Mike MorseHOST
[laughs]
Shuli EgarHOST
For sure.
EugeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He told me that Denver Pyle, James Best, and Sorrell Booke would triple team Catherine Bach during breaks in filming.
Shuli EgarHOST
[laughs] Wow, talk about some names you'll never hear again.
Discount DonPANELIST
Mm-hmm.
KyleHOST
It's, he's, he's obviously, he's not Roscoe.
KyleHOST
He's not tr- he's not James Best.
KyleHOST
He's not trying to be James Best, exactly.
KyleHOST
Um, he was a little bit different, and I thought, "Okay, there's potential."
JoshHOST
Yeah.
21 MINS LATER
KyleHOST
[laughs]
JedHOST
I mean, it...
JedHOST
As we've discussed, Roscoe, James Best just lights out.
TimHOST
But, yeah, as always, love this episode.
TimHOST
There are some good side players in it and a lot of recognizable faces there, too, between James Best as Jim Lindsay, best known to me, anyway, as Roscoe P. Coltrane from the Dukes of Hazzard.
PaulHOST
Me, too.
TimHOST
Yeah, it's funny to see the young James Best and also Dub Taylor.
TimHOST
It took a minute when I first saw him to recognize him because his hair was cut short.
TimHOST
And so many of his later roles, he's usually got bushy hair out to here and just looked a little different all cleaned up like that.
TimHOST
Yeah, yeah, that was really funny to see.
TimHOST
He played it to the hilt, too, the actor who played Bobby Fleet.
MartyHOST
captivity and so it's a shitload of silver dollars and um yeah it's a big case and that is given to him by this beauty queen who's been wearing his bracelet ever since he was captured so it's like a way to honor him she's been wearing this thing so she gives it back to him and that's the hot chick we were talking about earlier Well, the bad guys in town, because it's on the news, know that he has this giant box full of silver dollars and they come to get him.
MartyHOST
And the leader of this gang is none other than Roscoe P. Coltrane from the Dukes of Hazzard, James Best.
MikeHOST
Yeah.
MartyHOST
And as Mike mentioned before we started recording, not the only member of the Hazzard County Sheriff's Department that are in these movies because Enos... is in The Farmer, where he plays Passini's right-hand man who gets killed and thrown into a dryer.
MartyHOST
Okay, thank
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you.
MartyHOST
But having only seen James Best in Dukes of Hazzard and The Killer Shrews, I was not prepared for this level of profanity and violence from the man.
MikeHOST
Well, not the – yeah.