Cinema (Special Collections): Appalachia and the Movies

The Moonshine War, 1970 (The Moonshine War Press Kit, MS.3871)

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Moonshine War was directed by Richard Quine and based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard, who also wrote the screenplay. The movie takes place in Prohibition-era Kentucky. This collection contains several photographs and production and press notes.

Also see: The Moonshine War Original Screenplay, MS.3860

Other Ephemera:

Screenplay for Tennessee Johnson (1942), MS.3833

Hillbillyland: What the movies did to the mountains and what the mountains did to the movies, 1995 (PN1995.9.M67 W54 1995)

Southern mountaineers in silent films: Plot synopses of movies about moonshining, feuding, and other mountain topics, 1904-1929, 1994 (PN1995.9.M67 W55 1994)