Moonrunners

Moonrunners (1975)

You take a load of 200 proof corn liquor through a Georgia roadblock at 100 miles an hour and if you ain't a dead man, you're a moonrunner.

Grady 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

Date of release
1975-05-14
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Action, Comedy
Director
Gy Waldron

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Georgia, Williamson, and Haralson

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.

Production

Moonrunners was filmed during the fall of 1973 in Williamson and Haralson, Georgia.

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