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Motor Racing | Southern Usa
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Top Ten Films | 1973
Budget 2,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 1,000,000 USD
The movie depicts Junior's father as being arrested for producing moonshine. In reality, it was Junior himself that was arrested and sentenced. In 1956, federal tax agents found Johnson working at his father's moonshine still in Wilkes County; they arrested him. Many local residents believed the raid was done in revenge for the agent's inability to catch Johnson delivering moonshine on local highways; this is depicted in the movie when we see the local law enforcement busting up his father's still. Junior Johnson was convicted of moon-shining and was sent to prison in Chillicothe, Ohio. He served 11 months of a two-year sentence.
Junior Johnson is credited with inventing the "bootleg turn", in which a driver escapes a pursuer by sharply putting his speeding car into a 180-degree turn, using the parking or emergency brake, on the highway, then speeding off in the opposite direction before his pursuer can turn around. In the movie this is used to great effect twice on the same police officer: when he first encounters the officer he does a 180 and the chase begins and then uses the "bootleg turn" once more effectively causing the officer to embank his car on the road.
The #12 red and gold NASCAR Chevy Monte Carlo Jeff Bridges drives at the end of the film was actually Bobby Allison's well known and winning Coca-Cola sponsored car owned by Junior Johnson.
Junior Johnson himself served as technical advisor for the film.
Fictionalized version of Junior Johnson's career as a driver and moonshiner.
"Elroy Jackson Sr.: [about working in the saw mill] It didn't seem to worry most of the boys. They put in their time, looking ahead to payday. But not me. That paycheck wasn't money, it was a bill of sale. Three months of that, back to whiskey. It's been hard on your ma, but damn foolishness to one person is breath of life to another."
"Burton Colt: How you've changed. Last time I saw you, you were gonna whip my ass with whatever it by-god takes. Now you want a job. Elroy Jackson Jr.: [about Colt's racing trophy] Two questions: how long's it been since you won that thing, and do you want more? Burton Colt: Your manners haven't changed. Elroy Jackson Jr.: I don't want no job, neither. I work for nothin', take fifty percent of the prize money. Burton Colt: To begin with, I hire drivers on *my* terms. Elroy Jackson Jr.: And end up nowhere. Burton Colt: Where do you get off being so goddamn snotty? Elroy Jackson Jr.: I know my potential. So do you. Burton Colt: One race, twenty percent, you'll say forty, I'll say thirty. Yes or no?"
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