Monday, November 25, 2019

Hot Summer in Barefoot County (1974)

Before the Dukes of Hazzard there was this... the babes of Barefoot. Stella (Tonia Bryan) and her three daughters including Mary Ann (Sherry Robinson) are making hooch in a secret still in the woods and running moonshine across county lines in hot rods - basically living one version of the American dream! The hapless and heavily bearded sheriff Bull Tatum (Charles Elledge) tries his best to stop them but usually ends up in the ditch in disgrace. However the Feds in the state capital are starting to get impatient...

Agent Jeff (Don Jones) is sent undercover to try and discover what is going on but he gets run off the road when he reaches Barefoot. He is injured and nursed back to health by Mary Ann and her daughters. Jeff falls in love with one of the daughters / suspects and falls foul of the local imitation hard case Culley Joe (Jeff MacKay)...

It isn't a great film by any stretch of the imagination, being rather poorly made and a bit predictable, but is fairly harmless trash. If you like seeing beat up hot rods being chased down country roads by police cars with a banjo soundtrack then this is the film for you.