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John Hillcoat – MovieLog https://frowningbear.com/movies What me peepers have reckoned upon Wed, 02 Nov 2022 06:45:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Lawless (2012) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2990 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:30 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2990 In 1931, in Franklyn 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 Franklyn with the unscrupulous Special Deputy Charles Rakes, the Bondurant family refuses to pay the required bribe to the authorities. Rakes pursuits 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 Franklyn attracting the attention of Rakes that finds the location of their distillery. When he kills the crippled Cricket Pate, the locals join forces to face the corrupt authorities.

Lawless

When the law became corrupt, outlaws became heroes.

John Hillcoat

USA

7.3

IMDb

]]> Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead (1988) https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2493 Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:41:02 +0000 https://frowningbear.com/movies/?p=2493 The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalised until they erupt in violence. Dark and macabre, and based in truth, the story is told in a traditional dramatic style combined with telephone interviews and narration.

Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead

John Hillcoat

Australia

0

IMDb

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