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Moonrunners is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 14 may 1975 with James Mitchum
Moonrunners (1975)
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Add to a movie listMoonrunners is a 1975 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 as such the two productions share many similar concepts. Mitchum had co-starred with his father, Robert Mitchum, in the similar drive-in favorite Thunder Road eighteen 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.
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Les frères Lee (Hagg en version originale), transportent de l'alcool illégalement pour le compte de leur oncle Jesse, en faisant face à Jake Rainey, un homme d'affaires intéressé par ce trafic, et le shérif Roscoe Coltrane, prêts à tout pour arrêter les frères Lee.Actors
James Mitchum
(Grady Hagg)
Kiel Martin
(Bobby Lee Hagg)
Arthur Hunnicutt
(Uncle Jesse Hagg)
George McFarland
(Precious)
Joan Blackman
(Reba Rainey)
The Dukes of Hazzard
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