TY - ADVS AU - Reynolds,Burt AU - Anderson,Loni AU - Beatty,Ned AU - Nabors,Jim AU - Stevenson,Parker AU - Needham,Hal ED - Warner Bros. ED - Universal Pictures (Firm) ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - Stroker Ace SN - 0790738627 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 1998/// CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Home Video KW - Automobile racing KW - Drama KW - Sports sponsorship KW - Comedy films KW - Sports films KW - Feature films KW - Films for the hearing impaired N1 - Videodisc release of the 1983 motion picture by Warner Bros. Inc. and Universal City Studios Inc; Based on the novel "Stand on it" by William Neely and Robert K. Ottum; Screenplay, Hugh Wilson, Hal Needham ; music, Al Capps ; title song by the Charlie Daniels Band; Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors, Parker Stevenson, Loni Anderson; Rated PG N2 - Stroker Ace, two-time NASCAR winner heading for his third championship, loses his sponsor. In desperation he signs with fried chicken magnate Clyde Torkle. Soon Stroker discovers his book-length, iron-clad contract requires him to wear a chicken costume for television commercials and publicity stunts. Worse than that for any proud, daredevil racer, he has to drive a stock car with a sign that says "Fastest Chicken in the South." ER -