I've lived in Arkansas for a while and I always enjoy watching this Movie. My cousin Susie is one of the unwedded Mother's in the movie! She was an extra! She has a pic of Burt Holding her in his arms! This movie is as southern as iced tea and dirt roads in the summertime!

After a promising start and a car chase almost nothing happens through a huge portion of the movie, they drive around, Burt talks to people for what seems like meaningless conversations, he uses his real name, everyone seems to know he's working for the feds, he openly writes notes in a small book, there is this real annoying woman he is screwing behind his buddy's back, etc, etc. Some pretty bad acting, amateur actors, bad fighting, bad lighting, bad direction and a horrible script. Another dull car chase and then the end.One of Burt's worse movies. Not a lot of effort was put into this.

I will watch this movie over and over one of Burt before his mustache era lol. But seriously its a great movie. Action,racing fast cars, fast women and my favorite line of all time came from this movie...shaky pudding pie lol that I still use to this day. Im 52. Bo Hopkins plays a really cool shine runner and his women is hot also. Matter of fact she is the one with the line ,shaky pudding pie , my kind of gal lol. Ned Beatie is also in it as a sadistic sheriff and he plays the part very good. He is cool talking southern boy that has the twang in his voice as well. Its the first in a line of two movies that are both great. So if you have seen this movie you really need to watch the second one. Back to back if possible. Well that's my small take on this film that I just had ta keep talking about it for 10 lines lol.

Imagine sitting down to watch one of them good ol' boys pitcher shows from the Deep South, with Burt Reynolds a'grinnin' and a'fightin' . . .And finding out that, despite some quibbling errors, Joe Sargent's White Lightning is a small joy, a movie that has more than enough good performance, bite, and raw anger to raise it above the redneckery that Reynolds descended into as his career morphed into a cartoon.What makes White Lightning work is that Reynolds isn't cute and Ned Beatty, as his adversary, a thoroughly corrupted county sheriff, isn't a bufoon. Beatty is in no small part what makes the movie work--his rant against those who would take his little empire away from him (Washington bureaucrats, commie college students, colored agitators) doesn't make him likable, just believable.Plus, the movie looks good. It's grimy and sweaty; you can feel the heat coming off the engine blocks of the Ford Galaxie 500s. All the characters ooze perspiration in White Lightning; clear drops of sweat that seem interchangeable with the liquor being brewed and sold by everybody and his cousin.Arkansas looks unbearably hot and humid, angry and nasty.Just like Reynolds and Beatty.