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Moonshine (illicit distillation) is referenced in many works, including books, motion pictures, musical lyrics and television.

• InPatrick Dennis' fictional biographyFirst Lady, the early years revolve around a moonshine called "Lohocla" (alcohol spelled backwards) produced by the father of protagonist Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield. As time passes in the story the concoction is less prominent, until the time ofWorld War II, when the now-aged Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield donates her father's original formula for Lohocla to the United States government, which uses it in theatomic bombs dropped onJapan.
• InRocket Boys (andthe follow-on movie) byHomer H. Hickam Jr., moonshine plays a role in one of the home-maderocket fuels the protagonists create. In order to obtain it, they wind up getting drunk.^{[citation needed]}
• InThe Goblin Reservation byClifford D. Simak, the Neanderthal Alley Oop makes a very strong moonshine which everyone but him finds disgusting.

• In the 1924 cartoonFelix Finds Out,Felix the Cat is asked by his friend Willie to find out what makes the moon shine which is the latter's homework. As a mistake, Felix goes to a distillery serving moonshine, and drinks a bottle.
• In the 1953 movieStalag 17, featuringWilliam Holden as prisoner of war Sgt. Sefton, Sefton's still is one of his more "profitable" ventures. Of its product, made from potato peels and a few strings from Red Cross packages, he says the house "only guarantees you won't go blind."
• The 1958 movieThunder Road starredRobert Mitchum as a moonshine runner who takes risks driving his family's product through the hills ofTennessee for delivery inMemphis.
• The 1961 Soviet short comedy filmMoonshiners directed byLeonid Gaidai.
• The 1963 filmThe Great Escape is about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II. The two principal characters were U.S. Army Air Force Captain Virgil Hilts "The Cooler King," played by Steve McQueen and British Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Bob Hendley DFC "The Scrounger", played by James Garner. The two make moonshine in celebration of the4th of July. On that day while passing out their potent concoction to the detainees, German guards discover the tunnel—nicknamed "Tom"—being dug by these two and the other prisoners.
• The 1968 filmKillers Three. Moonshine runner in NC mountains, post WW2. Dick Clark co-star.
• In theJohn Wayne filmsTrue Grit (1969) andRooster Cogburn (1975), Wayne's characterRuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn is a heavy-drinkingUnited States Marshal who refers to his favorite moonshine as "genuine,double-rectifiedbusthead". However, he never buys his moonshine, instead confiscating it from other drunks for his own consumption.
• The 1972 Finnish filmEight Deadly Shots features sequences of moonshining.
• Moonshine was central to the plots in the 1973 Burt Reynolds filmsWhite Lightning and its sequelGator.
• The 1973 filmThe Last American Hero is based on the true story of AmericanNASCAR racing driver and ownerJunior Johnson and his family's long involvement in moonshining in North Carolina.
• The 1973 filmWalking Tall depicts SheriffBuford Pusser, who combats, among other things, illegal moonshine distilleries in McNairy County.
• The 1975 filmMoonrunners is a fictionalized account of the real-life experiences and stories of moonshinerJerry Rushing.
• In the 1977 filmGreased Lightning stars Richard Pryor asWendell Scott, the first African-American stock car racing champion in the United States. The film is loosely based on Scott's true life story. As a taxi cab driver in post-World War II, Scott had learned the skill of car racing by transporting illegal moonshine in the backwoods of Virginia.
• The 1970s TV seriesThe Waltons had two recurring characters, the elderly and genteelBaldwin sisters, Southern belle spinsters who follow in their father's footsteps making and sharing a product they describe as "Papa's recipe" or "The Recipe" which they naively believe to be a harmless folk remedy; in fact it is powerful moonshine whiskey.
• The 1996 filmThe People vs. Larry Flynt depicts Flynt and his brother Jimmy selling moonshine as children.
• In the 1996 made-for-TV-movieMoonshine Highway, Kyle MacLachlan stars as a driver who smuggles illegal moonshine through backcountry Tennessee in his modified Lincoln. Set in the 1950s, the moonshiners contest with federal agents, and a corrupt sheriff.
• The 2002 Hungarian filmHukkle (Hiccups) is a study of a rural community where the regular distribution of moonshine is suddenly responsible for a series of mystery deaths when the rebellious women of the town kill the more chauvinist men with select bottles tinctured with lily of the valley root.
• In the 2009 filmInglourious Basterds, Lt. Aldo Raine (played by Brad Pitt) says "Maynardville, Tennessee. I done my share of bootleggin'. Up there, if you engage in what the federal government calls illegal activity, but what we call a man just trying to earn a living for his family selling moonshine liquor, it behooves oneself to keep his wits. Long story short, we hear a story too good to be true—it is.^[1]
• The 2012 film,Lawless is a biographical drama gangster film directed by John Hillcoat based on Matt Bondurant's 2008 novelThe Wettest County in the World about his grandfather and great-uncles in Prohibition-era Franklin County, Virginia.

• Moonshine appears in a number of artists' songs, likeBruno Mars sangmoonshine,Bob Dylan,James Taylor,Van Morrison,John Denver,Ol' Dirty Bastard,Steve Earle,Jimmy Buffett,Akon,Jamie T,Mike Oldfield andHank Williams, Jr. as well asHank Williams III.Dolly Parton sang a song called "Daddy's Moonshine Still". American country-roots singer/songwriterGillian Welch released a moonshiner's dying lament, "Tear My Stillhouse Down".Hank Williams III sang "A Moonshiner's Life", paying homage to one man by name.
• George Jones' 1959 chart-topping song "White Lightning" tells the story of a North Carolina moonshiner. "Well in North Carolina, way back in the hills, lived my ol' pappy and he had him a still. He brewed white lightning 'til the sun went down. Then, he'd fill him a jug and he'd pass it around. Mighty mighty pleasin', pappy's corn squeezin'."
• Robert Mitchum recorded a song in 1958 titled "The Ballad of Thunder Road," in which a moonshiner and his son run the stuff in a truck and the "revenuers" never catch him. At the end the son goes too fast—"He left the road at ninety," says one line. The last line of the chorus goes, "The Law they never got him 'cause the Devil got him first!"
• "Copper Kettle" is a witty song about moonshine performed by artists such asJoan Baez andBob Dylan.
• TheGrateful Dead song "Brown Eyed Women (and Red Grenadine)" contains moonshine references: "Daddy made whiskey and he made it well / Cost two dollars and it burned like hell / I cut hick'ry to fire the still / Drink down a bottle and you're ready to kill".
• Funk bandParliament, led byGeorge Clinton, recorded a song called "Moonshine Heather (Taking Care of Business)", about a mother who must sell moonshine to support her kids.
• Black metal bandVenom praise the beverage in a song by the same name, found in their albumPossessed.
• Covington, Georgia rapperBoondox recorded a song titled "Sippin on down", about making and consuming moonshine.
• Hoyt Axton's "No No Song" describes progressive attempts to sell drugs andTennessean moonshine to a recovered addict who refuses it all.Ringo Starr's cover of this song was a number-one hit in Canada.
• The bluegrass song "Rocky Top" (Univ. of Tennessee's fight song) speaks of strangers who went looking for a moonshine still and never returned, as well as locals who "get their corn from a jar" because the ground is too rocky to actually grow corn.
• In the song "Ready or Not" sung by The Fugees, there is a reference to drinking moonshine.
• The Beach Boys' drummerDennis Wilson recorded a song titled "Moonshine" on his only solo album,Pacific Ocean Blue.
• In the song "Clear Blue Flame" on the album of the same title,Delta Moon stated that "good moonshine burns with a clear, blue flame".^[2]
• In the song "Rag Doll",Aerosmith talks about "getting crazy on themoonshine".
• Florida Georgia Line has a song on their albumHere's to the Good Times entitled "Get Your Shine On."
• Jake Owen has a song on his albumBarefoot Blue Jean Night entitled "Apple Pie Moonshine."
• RapperYelawolf is known to reference moonshine, an homage to hisAlabama heritage. He considers himself a connoisseur of Southern alcohol, including moonshine.^[3]
• Record producer and singerTimbaland said in theBubba Sparxxx songDeliverance "I've been travelling for some time, with my fishing pole and a bottle of 'shine..."
• Country singer,Brad Paisley's tenth album, released in 2014, is calledMoonshine in the Trunk, and includes a song with the same title.
• The Irish folk songsThe Moonshiner andThe Hills of Connemara both concern moonshine. It is referred to as "mountain tay" in 'Hills'.

• Granny from the 1960s television seriesThe Beverly Hillbillies runs a moonshine still by the Clampett family swimming pool (also referred to as the "cement pond") and refers to the product asrheumatism medicine and as an ingredient in her "spring tonic" and claims to drink only a thimbleful at a time.
• The Waltons featured the elderly spinster Baldwin sisters, who, in memory of their dear departed father, keep alive the knowledge of "The Recipe." Unbeknownst to them, their father was a bootlegger, and the concoction they lovingly produce from "The Recipe" is in fact moonshine whiskey.
• In the television seriesM*A*S*H, the charactersHawkeye Pierce andTrapper John McIntyre, later replaced byB. J. Hunnicutt, made moonshine (which they usually referred to asgin) in a makeshiftdistillery in their tent.
• The protagonists of the seriesThe Dukes of Hazzard are depicted as having run a still either presently or in the past, depending upon the adaptation.
• In theSanford episode "In the Still of the Night", Calvin (Dennis Burkley) sets up a still in Fred Sanford's kitchen.
• A fourth-season episode ofEmergency! included a major plot thread about a minor epidemic of psychotic behavior in alcoholics, which was ultimately traced to lead poisoning from a moonshine still. By the end of the episode, Engine Co. 51 was putting out a fire that destroyed that very distillery (and the house where it was located).
• InCSI: Crime Scene Investigation, cases involve suspects and perpetrators possessing moonshine.
• In the second season ofThe Unit it showed a former member of The Unit brewing Moonshine for other members. It was then showed in a number of episodes the Unit members drinking Moonshine from mason jars.
• In an episode ofIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Frank Reynolds is shown pouring large amounts of moonshine in a secret micro-brew he and Mac were making.
• Early Cuyler ofSquidbillies is said to be a frequent brewer of moonshine.
• In the eight episode ofStargate Atlantis's first season, the Atlantis crew meets a civilization that makes their own moonshine.
• In 'The Simpsons, Homer befriends moonshiners, and due to a cultivated taste for alcohol developed from frequent drinking, he becomes an official taste tester.
• In an episode ofOz, the HBO drama series based in a jail, Beecher is given moonshine by a fellow bunkmate.
• Areality television show titledMoonshiners began airing on the Discovery Channel in the fall of 2011.
• In several episodes ofThe Real Housewives of Orange County Tamra Judge's brother and mother are shown drinking moonshine.
• In the reality showFrontier House, Gordan Clune manufactures and sells moonshine.
• InMythBusters, the MythBusters find out if an exploding still really could blow a house down and if it really could use hooch to fuel an unmodified car on a "moonshine run".
• InPablo Escobar, The Drug Lord, there are various scenes where Moonshine is consumed by characters.

• In the gameRedneck Rampage, moonshine was used as a power-up that increased fighting ability.
• InGrand Theft Auto: Vice City andGrand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, a fictional booze called Boomshine is similar to moonshine.
• InGrand Theft Auto V, Franklin, Michael, and Lester celebrate the success of the mission "The Bureau Raid" by toasting with moonshine that Lester had near his desk.
• InBioShock, alcohol entitled "Moonshine" can be found in various locations and may be ingested to increase one's health status at the expense of lowering a player's Eve.
• InRed Dead Redemption, moonshine can be bought and consumed to refill the player's Dead eye meter.
• InRed Dead Redemption 2, moonshine can be bought and consumed to fortify the player's Health core. In the video game'smultiplayer component, players are able to produce, manage and distribute moonshine. In order to produce moonshine, the player must purchasemash and allow the distilling process to complete before they are required to sell the goods to buyers. Non-playable Revenue Agents act as an enemy deterrence to challenge the player as they attempt to sell.
• InAlan Wake, the protagonist has anout-of-body experience after drinking moonshine.
• In the two most recent games in theFallout series, moonshine is a consumable item that raises strength and charisma but lowers intelligence. In theFallout 3 downloadable content "Point Lookout," the drink is brewed as part of an optional quest. It is the strongest alcohol present in the game. InFallout: New Vegas, it can be crafted by the player with the assistance of the companion character Rose of Sharon Cassidy.Fallout 4 features "Bobrov's Best Moonshine" famous throughout Massachusetts.Fallout 76 has a public event called "Moonshine Jamboree" in which players must protect various stills from waves of enemies for a moonshining robot.
• In the gameThis War of Mine—a war survival game inspired by theSiege of Sarajevo—moonshine is an alcohol produced from sugar and clean water. In order to produce moonshine, the player first needs to build a Moonshine still and add a piece of fuel to the sugar and clean water. The product can be traded, drank to calm depression or used as the basis to prepare pure alcohol which has a higher trading value.
• In the gameMoonshine Inc. - recreate the life of an American moonshiner from production to distribution as authentically as possible in this tycoon & simulation game. Fermentation and distillation are simulated using exact formulas to produce complex alcohols using accurate apparatuses and production methods.

• Harkins, Anthony.Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon.Oxford University Press, US, 2005,ISBN 978-0195189506

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