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Moonrunners
Sign in to saveMoonrunners is a 1975 action comedy film starring James Mitchum, about a Southern family that runs bootleg liquor. It was reworked four years later into the popular long-running television series The Dukes of Hazzard, and the two productions share some similarities. Mitchum had co-starred with his father, Robert Mitchum, in the similar drive-in favorite Thunder Road 18 years earlier, which also focused upon moonshine-running 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 mus
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4.8Grady and Bobby Lee run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school moonshining methods, and refuses to buckle in to the 'big business moonshine' of Jake, who controls these parts for New York mobsters
Cast
- James Mitchum as Grady Hagg
- Kiel Martin as Bobby Lee Hagg
- Arthur Hunnicutt as Uncle Jesse Hagg
- Waylon Jennings as Balladeer
- Chris Forbes as Beth Ann Eubanks
- George Ellis as Jake Rainey
Themes
- car race
- whiskey
- moonshine
- dirt track racing
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- 102
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- publication date
- 1975-01-01
- title
- Moonrunners
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8 sectionsContents
- Plot {{Anchor|Story}}
- Cast
- Production
- {{anchor|Connections to ''The Dukes of Hazzard''}}{{anchor|''The Dukes of Hazzard''}}Legacy
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Moonrunners is a 1975 action comedy film starring James Mitchum, about a Southern family that runs bootleg liquor. It was reworked four years later into the popular long-running television series The Dukes of Hazzard, and the two productions share some similarities. Mitchum had co-starred with his father, Robert Mitchum, in the similar drive-in favorite Thunder Road 18 years earlier, which also focused upon moonshine-running 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 film was written and directed by Gy Waldron and is based on the life and stories of ex-moonshiner Jerry Rushing, who has a small role in the movie as a heavy at the Boar's Nest bar. It is listed in the book The Greatest Movie Car Chases of All Time.