This is because he will be sent up the river for years for his moonshining business. Played with as McKlusky wrecks hundreds of police vehicles, resists arrest, and flees in high speed chases that are much more serious crimes. The law treats it as every bit as bad as making meth today. Felony Misdemeanor: McKlusky's family has been making moonshine for a century.Drugs Are Good: Specifically, "moonshine is good." It becomes an applicable trope for the War on Drugs, though, as the police's overreaction to the moonshine trade and the corruption it engenders is all still relevant.Though it's more, "illegal liquor or the trade in it isn't bad."
WHITE LIGHTNING FULL
Dirty Cop: The movies are full of these as even the "honest" ones use unethical means to get McKlusky to cooperate with them.They take place in small towns ruled by Corrupt Hick types with swamps, car chases, moonshine, and Burt Reynolds. Deep South: Both movies heavily rely on stereotypes about this."Bama" McCall is a local businessman who extorts everyone in Dunston county, particularly minorities.Being played by Ned Beatty aka Lotso (who in comparison is worse than Connors) further helps. Connors is in the first movie, being a crooked county Sheriff who murders anyone in Bogan County he doesn't like. Corrupt Hick: McKlusky's primary foes are fellow Southerners that have a lot of authority and very little morality.All well before Burt Reynolds became synonymous with them. Cool Car: Gator uses a lot of these in his scenes.Chase Scene: 90% of the reason to watch the movies is the chase scenes.Boxed Crook: The premise of both movies is McKlusky is forced to work against his fellow criminals by the US government.Gator decides to go after the sheriff, leading to an epic car chase finale. When the sheriff discovers Gator is working for the federal government, Connors sends his enforcer, Big Bear, after him. He also starts an affair with Boone's girlfriend, Lou. To infiltrate the local moonshine industry, Gator lands a job running moonshine with Roy Boone. Watson has no choice but to cooperate because he himself is on federal probation or parole. His handlers force him onto Dude Watson, a local stock car racer and low-level whiskey runner. Gator knows the sheriff is taking money from local moonshiners, so he agrees to go undercover for a federal agency (presumably the IRS or BATF) to try to expose the sheriff. Norton.īobby "Gator" McKlusky is serving time in an Arkansas prison for running moonshine when he learns his younger brother Donny was murdered and that Sheriff J.C. White Lightning is a 1973 American action film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Burt Reynolds as the main character Robert "Gator" McKlusky, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, R.G.
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