Bootleggers (1974)

Directors

Charles B. Pierce

Cast

Paul Koslo

The story

Bootleggers (also released as Deadeye Dewey and the Arkansas Kid) 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.

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