Moonshine
About Moonshine
Two revenue agents, played by Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, go into the Virginia hills after bootleggers. A crowd of volunteers piles into Keaton's small car. The pair tumble down a hill. Arbuckle washes Keaton in a river and hangs him in a tree to dry, then meets Alice, daughter of the moonshiner Jud Grew. After a fight with another man who wants her, they find the stash. Arbuckle is grabbed. Keaton pushes the rival off a cliff. Al St. John plays the mountain man. Alice Lake plays Alice.
Cast & crew
More about Moonshine
Arbuckle directed and wrote it. A two-reeler. A circulating copy runs 18 minutes 11 seconds. Released March 10, 1918. Charles Dudley and Joe Bordeaux are billed. The lot is in Long Beach, standing in for the Virginia hills.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives. A circulating copy runs 18 minutes 11 seconds.
Notes
- The volunteers all come out of Keaton's car.
- Keaton is hung upside down to dry.
- Lake is the moonshiner's daughter, not a second agent.
- The Wikipedia plot does not use the Owens and Gillette feud named in older summaries.
Scenes
- The volunteers climb out of the small car.
- Keaton is left hanging in the tree while Arbuckle meets Alice.
