More Savage Than The Tommy-Gun Massacre of the Roaring Twenties...TODAY'S BILLION-DOLLAR WHISKEY WAR!
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.
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- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Robert MitchumLucas Doolin
- Gene BarryTroy Barrett
- Jacques AubuchonCarl Kogan
- Keely SmithFrancie Wymore
- Trevor BardetteVernon Doolin
- Sandra KnightRoxanna Ledbetter
- James MitchumRobin Doolin
- Betsy HoltMary Barrett (uncredited)
- Francis KoonSarah Doolin (uncredited)
- Randy SparksGuitarist (uncredited)
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- Arthur RipleyDirector
- James Atlee PhillipsScreenplay
- Walter WiseScreenplay
- Alan StensvoldDirector of Photography
- David EttensonDirector of Photography
- Jack MarshallOriginal Music Composer
- Harry MarkerEditor
- Robert MitchumProducer
- Arthur RipleyProducer
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