Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Moonrunners (1975)

United Artists
Directed by Gy Waldron
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)

Beer-guzzlin', gun-totin' good ole boys in Georgia fight each other for control of the local moonshine business. They occasionally stop to romance a girl and have brushes with the law. I thought for a minute that Robert Mitchum was slumming, but it turned out to be none other than James Mitchum, a dead ringer for his dad! It's episodic and very boring, even the car chases fail to add any life. However, it was apparently good enough to spawn the immensely successful Dukes of Hazzard TV series, and influenced the numerous redneck car chase movies that followed for the next 5 years before oversaturation killed the genre.

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