Take a look at the guy second from left. He's credited as "Tom Allard." Recognize him? Tom Allard is a very tall actor from either Ada or Big Cabin, depending on who you ask. There's not a lot of information on him online. Here's one of the few pics I was able to find of him:
Big guy, right? That's him with Kathleen Turner in the 1991 film "V.I. Warshawski." She's not exactly short herself so you can tell he's a tall drink of water. His height has led to being cast as tough guys, enforcers and just generally intimidating characters.
But it's also led to being cast as monsters, aliens and whatnot. He had a recurring role on a a "Land of the Lost" reboot in the 90s as a great big Dino-Man. He also played a tall alien in the 1991 film "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey."
Put aside the lingering butt shot for now (if you can). Does anyone in that clip look familiar? Keep in mind, our Oklahoma guy Allard is inside the alien suit. Let's take a closer look at the mural:
Looks like the Grim Reaper character from the movie, right? But he was played by New York native William Sadler. So what's going on here? Here's my theory:
The artist needed visual references for all the people he was painting. Remember how I said there wasn't a lot of info about Allard online? I found maybe two pics of him and neither we of any quality. So I'm thinking the artist looked up Allard's credits, saw that he was in the Bill & Ted movie and then mistook Sadler's "Death" character as Allard. (Death is very tall in the film. The actor is probably wearing lifts so that he can loom over Bill & Ted.)
So we've got the wrong guy on the mural, right? What do we do about it? Anything? Probably can't repaint the whole thing and just painting over the one guy might look weird. I say we leave it and we have ourselves a brand new roadside attraction! Your thoughts?
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