Lots of people don’t know that the Dukes of Hazzard television series was inspired by the 1975 movie Moonrunners. In the movie, two cousins run moonshine for their uncle Jesse, while narrator Waylon Jennings tells the tale. The boys are often chased by a policeman named Rosco Coltrane and fight against an evil county boss named Jake Rainey who Uncle Jesse calls “hog”. It is pretty clear that there was a little carry-over between the movie and the tv show.
In the movie the boys race a stock car named Traveler, which was what General Robert E Lee named his horse during the Civil War. Again, you can see where the inspiration of naming the car for the television series came from.
Here’s some good old bangin’ and bashing’ from the movie. Full size cars racing though the woods and smashing each other to bits won’t win you a film festival, but it sure makes us smile!
