EDITOR’S NOTE: Tank was on the CBS Late Movie on November 11, 1988.

Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky (Evel Knievel) and written by Dan Gordon (Rambo: Last Blood, Surf Ninjas), Tank has U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Zack Carey (James Garner) just wanting to retire, despite the army trying to keep him enlisted. An older son had joined and died in training, which has put distance between Zack and his son Billy (C. Thomas Howell).

Zack owns a World War II tank, as one does, and he’s also a pretty good guy. One night at a bar, he watches Deputy Euclid Baker (James Cromwell) slap around a waitress named Sarah (Jenilee Harrison). We soon learn that he and Sheriff Cyrus Buelton (G.D. Spradlin) have been turning local girls into prostitutes. Zack goes against them, which ends up with his son being set up with drugs at school. Even when he offers them his life savings — his wife LaDonna (Shirley Jones) is not pleased — they keep screwed him and his family over.

So, as you’d hope, Zack takes his tank and smashes up the police station and a work camp. Taking his son’s lawyer with him, they make their way to Tennessee from Georgia in the hopes that they can get the evidence to the right people to clean up this town. He becomes a folk hero, and even bikers help him get over the state line.