Film and television actor Sonny Carl Davis will be the special guest during the University Cinema’s screening of “The Whole Shootin’ Match” on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Bay Hall, Room 103, at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

The screening, which is part of the Seven Cinema Classics” film series, is free and open to the public. Davis will discuss the film and answer questions following the screening.

The Whole Shootin’ Match (1978), long unavailable for viewing, has been restored and reissued in DVD format by Watchmaker Films. Directed by the late Eagle Pennell, “The Whole Shootin’ Match,” starring Davis and the late Lou Perryman, is a pioneering work of Texas independent filmmaking in the 1970’s. The film was shot in and around Austin and is saturated with the regional flavor of rural central Texas. Rich in humor and pathos, the plot tells the story of two good ol’ boys looking for a way to get rich.

Davis has appeared in “Fast Times at