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Bookmark this pageWhite Lightning (1973)
Director: Joseph Sargent
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From Time Out Film Guide
An example of what can go wrong with a movie. Ned Beatty as the corrupt Southern sheriff who drowns two long-hairs in a backwater; the down-home photography; the minor characters who bootleg whisky - they all make it look as if the film has something to say. But with Burt Reynolds, playing it light though all out for revenge as the brother of one of the dead boys, 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. Reynolds returned to the character in Gator three years later.Author: CPe
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Cast & crew
Director: Joseph Sargent
Producer: Arthur Gardner, Jules V Levy
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd, RG Armstrong full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 101 mins
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