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The cousins take Beth to the next race at the local track. The other stock-car drivers include "good ol' boy" Zeebo, and Zeebo's lackey Cooter Pettigrew. Zeebo (driving #31) and Cooter (driving #28) team up to beat Grady in the race, leading to a moonlit bootlegger road race between Bobby Lee and
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To get at Jesse's supply, Jake uses Sheriff Rosco Coltrane to harass the cousins. At the same time, he uses Zeebo and Reba (Jake's wife who is having an affair with Grady) to goad the boys into a trap. During these events, Uncle Jesse calls Jake "hog" (effectively making Jake "Boss Hogg") as a
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is Jake Rainey, a friend of Jesse's from the old days, when they both bootlegged for Jesse's father in 1934, and owner of the local bar and brothel. Jake has control of all the other moonshine in the county, and sells it to the New York syndicate
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is a once-honest officer who turned to corruption with the county boss after he was cheated out of his pension. This theme carried over to the end of the first season of the series. Much of the Balladeer's dialogue introducing Rosco in
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who knows the Bible better than the local preacher. He has been a widower since Aunt Libby died 10 years ago. He still makes liquor, according to his "granddaddy's granddaddy's" recipe, in
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Other names or roles were altered, while retaining recognizable connections. In the film, Uncle Jesse and the boys have the surname Hagg; in the series, their antagonist's surname is
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named Molly and Beulah. Every drop is aged two years, and bottled in glass (never plastic). The Haggs have been making their recipe since before the
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after General Lee's horse). Grady is briefly mentioned as probably having a number of children around Shiloh and Tennessee (in the pilot episode of
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as Jake Rainey's bodyguard in the film and crooked used-car salesman Ace Parker in the fourth episode, "Repo Men"
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and cannot own guns, use a bow with explosive arrows to put Jake Rainey's moonshining factory out of business.
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in the film is named Beauregard, a name which would be given to Bo (Beauregard) Duke in the series.
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Bobby Lee (also called "Lee") is a smart-mouthed schemer, named after Confederate General
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put-down. Uncle Jesse dies after completing a moonshine run. The cousins, who are on
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C. Pete Munro as Zeebo in the film and Willie in the season-two episode "Jude Emery"
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Bill Gribble as Cooter in the film and Carson in the second episode, "Daisy's Song"
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and a shirt. The film and series feature a corrupt county boss (Jake Rainey and
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This article is about the 1975 motion picture. For the role-playing game, see
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young woman in trouble who is taken in by the Haggs; the character resembles
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A "Moonrunner's" Tale: From Grit to Gold: How "The Dukes" was Born
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as Fred (a revenue agent) in the film and the Dukes' best friend,
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is similar to that in Rosco's first scene in the first episode of
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Several names, places, and situations from the film were used in
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after General Lee's horse, and the Dukes' stock car is named
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Grady is a laconic "Romeo" who drives their 1955 Chevrolet
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and is based on the life and stories of ex-moonshiner
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boom of the 1970s during which the film was released.
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Moonrunner

Gy Waldron
Robert B. Clark
James Mitchum
Kiel Martin
Arthur Hunnicutt
Chris Forbes
Waylon Jennings
United Artists
action comedy
James Mitchum
Southern
runs bootleg liquor
The Dukes of Hazzard
Robert Mitchum
drive-in
Thunder Road
moonshine
B movie
outlaw music
Gy Waldron
Jerry Rushing
Boar's Nest
Waylon Jennings
Baptist
stills
American Revolutionary War
Robert E. Lee
stock car

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