As I remember that's the movie with Andy Griffith as an ex-convict turned radio star. I was never an Andy Griffith fan, but I loved that movie. I like to see actors play villains at least occasionally. Villainous characters are more colorful.
Charles Bronson (a hit man in The Mechanic), Clint Eastwood (a prison escapee in Escape From Alcatraz), Chuck Norris (a hired goon who fought Bruce Lee's character in Enter The Dragon), Arnold Schwartzengger (a cyborg assassin in The Terminator), Sylvester Stallone (a thug in Bananas and a vehicular killer in Death Race 2000), Denzel Washington (a dirty cop in Training Day) and even Ronald Reagan (Angie Dickinson's character's abusive spouse in Killers) have all played villains. One thing I hated about John Wayne is that he never played a villain nor did any of his movie characters die. Live on, villains!