THE SHERIFF & THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL KID (1979) – I’m often asked about movies that are safe to watch with children around at Christmas time. Here are TWO such films, both starring gruff but likable Spaghetti Western icon Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) and, of all people, Cary Guffey – the little kid from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The first film, The Sheriff & The Extraterrestrial Kid is also called The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid. Three years BEFORE Steven Spielberg’s E.T. Guffey played an alien child who gets stranded on Earth and meets modern day law enforcement figure Sheriff Hall (Spencer), who helps keep him out of the hands of sinister government officials who want to study the unearthly child.
Cary Guffey’s character is named H7-25 and possesses an alien device similar to a television remote control device. That device lets H7-25 rewind time and other miraculous acts to help Sheriff Hall against their pursuers. The kid often uses it to rewind unpleasant events for the bad guys during the many, many chase and fight scenes.
Sheriff Hall is, typically for Bud Spencer, a brute with a soft heart and muscles of steel whose action scenes are like a hybrid of a Three Stooges short and an old Popeye cartoon.
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If you are heavily into films and hearing from directors and actors offering comments on their work long ago when those movie projects first came out you may enjoy the old Matt and Greg Podcasts. The pair listen to and comment on 1990s to early 2000s radio junket interviews. 
We need alternate political parties. The Democrats have become basically “The Party” in 1984 fashion, with intolerant functionaries pushing Democrat Dogma into every aspect of the social, professional and educational aspects of life for the rest of us. Dissenting from Democrat Party policy has become grounds for driving people out of their jobs and even out of entire professions. 
And here’s a look at the three people being called “heroes” by Democrats. (Maybe they’ll build statues of THEM, too.)
And below is an excellent reminder of the way Corporate Fascists do the Democrats’ dirty work for them, even interfering with people’s attempts to secure good legal help. 
A perfect take on Democrat insanity right now:
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