Kentucky Moonshine [SEP] director
Kentucky Moonshine
Kentucky Moonshine is a 1938 film directed by David Butler and released by 20th Century Fox.
Plot.
Radio singer Tony Martin's rating are slipping, so he makes travel plans to the Southern United States to find new talent. The Ritz boys get wind of Tony's pending trip. Marjorie Weaver and the Ritz Brothers make a trip to Kentucky. There they pose as hillbillies in order to be discovered.
Cast.
- Ritz Brothers as Themselves
- Tony Martin as Jerry Wade
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U.S. Supreme Court case "Hustler Magazine v. Falwell". Though not a financial success, the film was lauded by critics, and garnered Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton and director Miloš Forman multiple accolades and award nominations.
Woody Harrelson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and Miloš Forman for an Academy Award for Best Director at the 69th Academy Awards, but both lost.
Plot.
In 1952, 10-year-old Larry Flynt is selling moonshine in Kentucky. Twenty years later, Flynt and