Moonrunners [SEP] cast member
Moonrunners
Moonrunners is a 1975 action comedy film starring James Mitchum, about a Southern family that runs bootleg liquor. It was reworked four years later into the popular long-running television series "The Dukes of Hazzard", and as such the two productions share many similar concepts. Mitchum had co-starred with his father, Robert Mitchum, in the similar drive-in favorite "Thunder Road" eighteen years earlier, which also focused upon moonshine-running bootleggers using fast cars to elude federal agents. "Moonrunners"
, Traveller. Traveller was also the name of the car in "Moonrunners", the 1975 movie precursor to "The Dukes of Hazzard".
History.
Although the estimated number of "General Lees" used varies from different sources, according to former cast member Ben Jones ("Cooter" in the show), as well as builders involved with the show, 325 "General Lees" were used to film the series. Others claim about 255 were used in the series. Approximately 17 still exist in various