White Lightning

Name: White Lightning
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Released: August 8, 1973
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Bo Hopkins, Burt Reynolds, Conlan Carter, Dabbs Greer, Diane Ladd

1973

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United Artists | Release Date: August 8, 1973 | PG

Starring: Bo Hopkins, Burt Reynolds, Conlan Carter, Dabbs Greer, Diane Ladd, Jennifer Billingsley, Louise Latham, Matt Clark, Ned Beatty, R.G. Armstrong

Summary: An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Director: Joseph Sargent

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime

Rating: PG

Runtime: 101 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Generally regarded as the best of Reynolds good ol' boy films, with fine, sensitive performances by the leads and a wonderful supporting cast. Read full review

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Joseph Sargent’s direction is particularly effective in the light and auto-chasing sequences, latter a field day for stunt drivers and occasionally incorporating humorous bits of biz. Reynolds is quite up to all the demands of his smashing role. Read full review

Roger Greenspun

A fairly awful movie that keeps producing good things—scenes, performances, moments of insight—that seem connected to better ideas than anything suggested in the film's larger intentions. Read full review

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Everything becomes one long car chase, and in the end it's just a matter of the fat bald bully getting his comeuppance at the hands of the not-so-fat toupeed hero. Read full review

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