Moonrunners
Moonrunners is a 1975 film, starring James Mitchum, about a Southern family that runs bootleg liquor. It was reworked four years later into the popular longrunning television series The Dukes of Hazzard, and as such the two productions share many similar concepts. Mitchum had costarred with his father, Robert Mitchum, in the similar drivein favorite Thunder Road eighteen years earlier, which also focused upon moonshinerunning bootleggers using fast cars to elude federal agents. Moonrunners, a B movie, was filmed in 1973 and awaited release for over a year. Its soundtrack reflects the outlaw music boom of the 1970s during which the film was released.
The story is narrated by the Balladeer Waylon Jennings, who introduces and comments on the story of cousins, Grady and Bobby Lee Hagg, who run bootleg liquor for their uncle Jesse Hagg of Shiloh County.Uncle Jesse is a Baptist, who knows the Bible better than the local preacher. He has been a widower since Aunt Libby died ten years ago. He still makes liquor, according to his granddaddys granddaddys recipe, in stills named Molly and Beulah. Every drop is aged two years, and bottled in glass never plastic. The Haggs have been making their recipe since before the Revolutionary War, and Jesse only sells to a friend in nearby Florence to ensure that his liquor is never blended with any other. ........
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