Highest-Rated Movies about 'Bootlegging', Sort by Popularity

Lawless (2012), I Walk Alone (1947), Spite Marriage (1929), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Moonfleet (1955), White Lightning (1973), Moran of the Lady Letty (1922), Broadway to Cheyenne (1932) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bootlegging movies.

#1. Lawless (2012)

Storyline: In 1931, in Franklin County, Virginia, Forrest Bondurant is a legend as immortal after surviving the war. Together with his brothers Howard and the coward Jack, the Bondurant family has a distillery and bootlegging business. When the corrupt District Attorney Mason Wardell arrives in Franklin with the unscrupulous Special Deputy Charles Rakes, the Bondurant family refuses to pay the required bribe to the authorities. Rakes pursues the brothers and unsuccessfully tries to find their distillery. Meanwhile Forrest hires the waitress Maggie, a woman with a hidden past in Chicago, and they fall in love with each other. Jack courts the preacher's daughter Bertha Minnix and deals a great load of alcoholic liquor with the powerful gangster Floyd Banner. Jack shows off in Franklin attracting the attention of Rakes that finds the location of their distillery. When he kills the crippled Cricket Pete, the locals join forces to face the corrupt authorities.

Plot Keywords: bootlegger, moonshiner, brother, girlfriend, police officer, special agent, fiery ...

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#2. I Walk Alone (1947)

Storyline: Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner, Frankie's former partner in bootlegging, is now a wealthy nightclub manager, and Frankie is expecting him to honor a verbal '50:50' agreement they made when he was caught and Noll got away. Fat chance! Can Frankie, who knows only the strong-arm methods of Prohibition, win out against Big Business? It'll be tough...even with the unlikely alliance of torch singer Kay (Noll's ex-girlfriend).—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: bootlegger, ex-convict, nightclub owner, ex-girlfriend, partner, brooding, dark ...

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#3. Spite Marriage (1929)

Storyline: Elmer is a dry cleaner. He is madly in love with stage star Trilby Drew; for each of her 35 performances, he dons someone else's tuxedo and races to the theatre. When Trilby's co-star boyfriend gets engaged to a socialite, she marries Elmer to get even, assuming Elmer is a millionaire (since his clothes are so snazzy.) But she's clearly still in love with her scoundrelous co-star, and her manager makes her leave Elmer, trying to pay him off so the papers don't hear about her marriage to a "cheap pants presser." Can Elmer win her love? Maybe a sea voyage will help.—<bletzler@lan.tjhsst.edu>

Plot Keywords: cleaner, actress, lover, sailor, smuggler, amusing, charming ...

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#4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

Storyline: Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time. Picking it up is simple enough, but as they are leaving Texas, Bandit unwittingly picks up Carrie, a hitchhiking bride-to-be who just left her groom, Junior, at the altar. Junior, however, is the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit.

Plot Keywords: truck driver, hitchhiker, sheriff, texan, cheeky, rousing, amusing ...

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#7. Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)

Storyline: Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Sternerson, feisty daughter of the Letty's captain. Moran and Ramon have little use for each other, but when trouble erupts and the smuggler Captain Kitchell turns his evil eye on Moran, it is Ramon who comes to her rescue.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: playboy, beautiful woman, ship captain, sailor, thrilling, melodramatic, ship ...

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#8. Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)

Storyline: When Owens' gang shoots it out in a New York nightclub, detective Breezy Kildare is wounded. After he recovers he takes a vacation at his father's ranch in Wyoming. Here he meets Owens again and finds him running a protection racket. When Breezy tries to stop him, Owens makes plans to eliminate Breezy.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: police officer, rancher, gangster, bootlegger, henchman, father, rousing ...

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