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Written by James M. Tate / 9/14/2024 / No comments / action , burt reynolds , diane ladd , jennifer billingsley , john steadman , joseph sargent , laura dern , louise latham , matt clark , ned beatty , prison , r.g. armstrong , stephanie burchfield

BURT REYNOLDS, NED BEATTY & BO HOPKINS IN 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyRAALyT-Ql23lJqBetLYXRwxSbpwWd-x6uiJse6ulunwhep_0_YkGnMFByW6rOKuMZflsFxNdTxH4HshFAD13AF45YzWgo8oItEv31fIAS333o2_kH5PPa7ha_Gg8ttqa_0CTj6JCSgaugcY4WO6wvNMVGiuNABxhnU5TPgBuVBIpgwiPGt-E58aEkPgo/s1096/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-01%20at%209.45.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="1096" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyRAALyT-Ql23lJqBetLYXRwxSbpwWd-x6uiJse6ulunwhep_0_YkGnMFByW6rOKuMZflsFxNdTxH4HshFAD13AF45YzWgo8oItEv31fIAS333o2_kH5PPa7ha_Gg8ttqa_0CTj6JCSgaugcY4WO6wvNMVGiuNABxhnU5TPgBuVBIpgwiPGt-E58aEkPgo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-01%20at%209.45.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>For Burt Reynolds, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/white-lightning.html">WHITE LIGHTNING</a> was a cross between the previous-years' DELIVERANCE and near-future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/08/bandit1.html">SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT</a> with creative and gritty 1970's-renaissance-era direction of the first and more mainstream good-old-boy muscle car action of the latter...Where Burt looks as if his manly <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/deliverance.html">DELIVERANCE</a> character had never been injured and, doing a five-year sentence on a scorching work-farm for moonshine, he learns what the audience witnessed in the dusky prologue, ironically set in an extremely familiar rural river setting...

action, burt reynolds, diane ladd, jennifer billingsley, john steadman, joseph sargent, laura dern, louise latham, matt clark, ned beatty, prison, r.g. armstrong, stephanie burchfield

BURT REYNOLDS, NED BEATTY & BO HOPKINS IN 'WHITE LIGHTNING'

Burt Reynolds in WHITE LIGHTNING (Reassessment Review) Year: 1973 Rating: **** For Burt Reynolds, WHITE LIGHTNING was a cross between the p...

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