6.2 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Charles B. Pierce Release date 1974 Language English Director Charles B. Pierce Music director Jaime Mendoza-Nava | 6.3/10 IMDb Music by Jaime Mendoza-Nava Country USA Initial release 6 June 1974 (USA) Box office 4.2 million USD Cinematography Tak Fujimoto | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Paul Koslo
Dennis Fimple Cast Jaclyn Smith, Slim Pickens, Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Betty Bluett Similar Creatures from the Abyss, Dragonslayer, The Levenger Tapes, With You, The Night Strangler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bootleggers 1974
Bootleggers is a 1974 American comedy-drama film directed by Charles B. Pierce.
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Plot
Bootleggers is a period piece crime comedy-drama set in rural Arkansas. The first quarter of the film is set 1921, where 10-year-old Othar Pruitt witnesses his bootlegger father being murdered by a member of a rival bootlegger family. The film then skips forward to 1933 which details the adult Othar Pruitt and his partner-in-crime, Dewey Crenshaw, who make a living as moonshiners and cross-state bootleg runners. The film follows an episodic plotline which details Othar and Dewey's work with interacting with Othar's grandfather's distillery, harassing the local sheriff who demands bribes from the bootleggers, flirting with various women at local social ho-downs, and continue to clash against the rival Woodall family and their chief competitors for control of the bootlegged trail runs. When Grandpa Pruitt is murdered by the Woodall clan, Othar and Dewey decide to take matters into their own hands, leading to a climatic shootout with the Woodall family.