White Lightning (1973 film)
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White Lightning is an action film released in 1973 by United Artists and staring Burt Reynolds as moonshiner Gator McKlusky.
Gator is serving time in an Arkansas prison for running moonshine when he learns from his cousin that his kid brother was murdered for protesting with his hippie friends and finds that sheriff J.C Conners played by Ned Beatty was the one behind it. Gator knows the sheriff is taking money from local moonshiners so he agrees to go undercover and try to expose the sheriff by getting in with the local moonshiners. He gets a job running moonshine for Roy Boone and starts having an affair with his girlfriend Lou after a shootout with shiner Big Bear. he goes after the sheriff to finish business.
[edit] Cult status
White Lightning is considered a classic 1970s action film in which it has car chases gun battles and fist fights and the films music has also been used in the 2003 film Kill Bill Vol. 1.
