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The Wettest County in the World – Department of English by Matt Bondurant Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia, during Prohibition and in the years after.

Howard, the eldest brother, is an ox of a man besieged by the horrors he witnessed in the Great War; Forrest, the middle brother, is fierce, mythically indestructible, and the consummate businessman; and Jack, the youngest, has a taste for luxury and a dream to get out of Franklin. Driven and haunted, these men forge a business, fall in love, and struggle to stay afloat as they watch their family die, their father’s business fail, and the world they know crumble beneath the Depression and drought.

White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, or rotgut—whatever you called it, Franklin County was awash in moonshine in the 1920s. When Sherwood Anderson, the journalist and author of Winesburg, Ohio, was covering a story there, he christened it the “wettest county in the world.” In the twilight of his career, Anderson finds himself driving along dusty red roads trying to find the Bondurant brothers, piece together the clues linking them to “The Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy,” and break open the silence that shrouds Franklin County.

Where did the Bondurant family live?

Old Roller Mill will be home to Bondurant distillery In the 1920s and 1930s, if you lived in Franklin County, most likely you were in involved in the county’s biggest industry — making illegal whiskey or moonshine. The proliferation of stills prompted then-Deputy Prohibition Commissioner N.C.

Alexander to note that of the 30,000 people living in Franklin County at the time, 29,999 were “mixed up directly or indirectly in the whiskey business.” Franklin County was known during Prohibition as “the wettest county in America.” Eighty years later, the grandson of one Franklin County’s moonshiners, Robert Bondurant of Chase City, is carrying on the family legacy by making moonshine in a still pot handed down through the family.

That’s where Robert’s ties to the past ends. He has had to forego using the family recipe, since it died with his grandfather and great uncles. And he won’t be making his whiskey in Franklin County. Instead, he’s setting up shop in an old warehouse on Third Street, across from the Southside Roller Mill in Chase City.

On a recent Sunday afternoon, as Bondurant surveys the building that is about to become his distillery and gift shop in Chase City, he asked, “Do you know the difference between a distiller and a moonshiner? I’m a distiller. I pay taxes.” He is also licensed by both the federal government and the state of Virginia to operate a distillery, which, of course, was not true of his grandfather and great uncles’ stills.

For Bondurant, his new venture is as much about making moonshine as it is about telling what he calls “the real story” of his family’s moonshine past. He makes no apologies or excuses for the criminal side, but claims the book written by his cousin Matt Bondurant, “The Wettest County in the World” — which was made into a 2012 movie, “Lawless” — is more fiction than fact.

• Robert Bondurant is the grandson of Jack Bondurant, who with brothers Forrest and Howard operated one of the many stills dotting the countryside of western Virginia.
• By 1935, the brothers were also unindicted co-conspirators and central figures in one of the most sensational and longest trials in the history of Virginia, “The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial.” On Feb.7, 1935, a grand jury meeting in Harrisonburg handed down a 22 page indictment against 34 individuals and one corporation, and named another 55 unindicted co-conspirators who allegedly were engaged “in carrying on the business of a distiller” without paying tax on the distilled spirits.

Those indicted included Franklin County Commonwealth’s Attorney Charles Carter Lee (the great nephew of Robert E. Lee), plus a former county sheriff, four deputies and a federal revenue agent. Following the indictments, The Roanoke Times reported that Lee and the five other officials were accused of accepting money for protection of those engaged in illicit whiskey operations.

When the trial ended, the moonshiners had either pled guilty in exchange for light sentences or were found guilty of conspiracy. Two deputies were dead, one from pneumonia and another allegedly shot while transporting a prisoner. The former sheriff and a deputy, Abshire, were convicted of conspiracy, but Carter Lee was found not guilty.

Later, eleven of the twelve jurors signed affidavits accusing Carter Lee of jury tampering. They claimed he somehow influenced the decision of the twelfth juror. Jack, Forrest and Howard Bondurant, like many of the farmers living in the hills of western Virginia, turned to moonshining as a way to sustain their family during the Great Depression.

1. Robert’s father, who is also named Jack Bondurant, said his father spoke very little about his life as a moonshiner.
2. The children were not allowed at or near the still.
3. To the family, Jack Bondurant was a farmer.
4. He never tried to bring his children into the moonshine business.
5. Both Robert and his father Jack are retired game wardens.

Jack recalls when he first realized what his father was doing to earn a living, “I was a very inquisitive kid, so I probably realized what my father did, when I was 9 or 10.” He also has memories of his father being away from home — among them three brief periods when the elder Jack Bondurant was sentenced to prison because of his moonshine operation.

One of Jack’s more vivid memories involves the shooting of his father and Uncle Forrest by a local sheriff’s deputy. Jack stressed that he was not present at the shooting, which took place on a bridge at Maggodee Creek in Franklin County. His version is what was told to him after the fact and what he gleaned from the grand jury testimony of his Uncle Forrest and father as written in the T.

Keister Greer book “The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935.” In Jack’s account, his father and uncles, who began producing moonshine in 1928, paid Franklin County Deputy Sheriff Henry Abshire between $25 and $30 each month to keep state and federal revenue agents away from their stills.

1. The first time they attempted to haul liquor — the phrase used to describe the transportation of the liquor from the still to a buyer — Jack and Forrest were shot, after refusing to pay additional protection money in the form of a carload of moonshine.
2. According to Jack and Robert, the elder Jack and Forrest were each driving a vehicle filled with moonshine when they were stopped by Abshire and Deputy Charlie Rakes at the Maggodee Creek Bridge.

The deputies demanded they turn over one of the two cars. Despite Forrest’s protest reminding Abshire that payment was already made to him, the deputies persist. Hoping to stop them from seizing the moonshine, Jack is said to have removed the keys from one of the vehicles and to have tossed them down the bank toward the creek.

1. Rakes responds by shooting Jack.
2. Robert says it is his understanding that the bullet entered his grandfather’s side under one arm and exited out the other side of his body under the opposite arm.
3. When Forrest rushed to his brother’s aid, Rakes shot him in the stomach.
4. Forrest nearly died from his wounds,” Robert says.

By this time, the third brother, Howard, has arrived at the Maggodee Creek Bridge. He takes Jack to the hospital in Rocky Mount, and Abshire drives the wounded Forrest into town where they meet with Lee. Abshire arranges, with the help of Lee, to have the remaining vehicle towed to Rocky Mount.

• The family lore, according to Robert, is that when the car seized by the deputies was stopped at the bridge, there were over 120 gallons of moonshine inside.
• By the time the car reaches town, supposedly less than 30 gallons remained.
• Both Jack and Robert say that Lee, was the mastermind behind the moonshine operation.

They also refute allegations made in the book and the movie “Lawless” that there were any connections between the Franklin County moonshine operation and the Chicago mob. Eventually, Franklin County’s moonshine operation drew the attention of federal officials.

1. In part, because of the quantities of sugar, malt, hops, corn meal and yeast that poured into a county with a population of 24,000.
2. Records introduced during the Great Moonshine Conspiracy trial, list shipments of nearly 34 million pounds of sugar, 13 million pounds of corn meal, 1 million pounds of malt, 30,300 pounds of hops and 35 tons of yeast making their way to Franklin County during a five-year period.

Robert said, “That’s more sugar than they ate in New York City.” It was estimated that had the still operators paid taxes, their moonshine sales would have generated $5.5 million in excise taxes at the 1920 rate. Today, that is equal to $95.6 million.

Robert says the “best part of the story” about the Great Moonshine Conspiracy really takes place during and after the trial. To learn that, people will have to come to his distillery after it opens in early 2015. He plans for the distillery to be a living history lesson that includes the manufacture of a “prohibition style beverage” using the prohibition style processes.

“When you enter the place, I want you to feel like you have stepped back in time.” Unfortunately, his grandfather’s still and recipes are long gone. The elder Jack Bondurant spent his later years farming, and building houses. Through research, Robert said he developed a recipe and process that will replicate that western Virginia prohibition era moonshine.

Where does the wettest county in the world take place?

Matt Bondurant uses the history of his own family to tell the story of moonshining during the 20’s and 30’s in his book The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story. Bondurant does an excellent job painting a picture of the hardscrabble lives of people in Virginia’s Franklin county.

How accurate is Lawless?

Nick Cave: ‘Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth’ N ick Cave is explaining why Lawless, a film punctuated by scenes of brutal violence, could have been even more visceral. “In my original draft of the script, the opening scene culminated with a pig having its throat cut,” he says, chuckling.

1. It was bloody and shocking and it kind of signalled what was to come, but they discovered you just can’t pull a pig’s snout back without it going crazy.
2. This,” he says drily, “is the kind of stuff that film-making teaches you.” We are sitting, sipping tea, in the bright and spacious kitchen of the large Regency house in Brighton where Cave, 54, lives with his wife, former model Susie Bick, and their twin sons, Arthur and Earl.

There are books, a mono record player, a piano and several paintings of strange-looking cats on the walls. Cave is dressed in his characteristically sharp sartorial style – tailored pinstripe trousers, immaculately shiny shoes, an open-necked shirt with a big collar – and looks lean and healthy, seeming to thrive on a work-rate that, as he grows older, becomes ever more prodigious.

• In the last year, he has written several drafts of the script for Lawless as well as the songs for a new album with his longtime band, the Bad Seeds.
• I spent eight months on those songs,” he says, shaking his head, “which is a hell of a long time for me.
• Screenwriting is just not like that.
• You write a scene and it works or it doesn’t.

It’s immediate. I can really bat that stuff out fast and it feels totally natural to do that. To tell the truth, it’s a huge relief after the labour of songwriting. In a way, it sometimes feels like what I was put on Earth to do.” Lawless is the second script that Cave has written for director John Hillcoat, his longtime friend and Australian-born fellow traveller, best known for his recent adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian novel, The Road,

In 2005, Cave and Hillcoat collaborated on critically acclaimed outback western The Proposition, Way back in 1988, Cave co-wrote and acted in Hillcoat’s debut feature, Ghosts of the Civil Dead, a brooding prison drama in which the singer played a violent psychopath with a degree of relish that suggested some disturbingly deep connection with the role.

If his acting debut did not exactly set Hollywood alight, Cave now finds himself in considerable demand as a scriptwriter. “There’s a pile of stuff waiting for me in my office,” he says. (Cave famously works 9am to 5pm daily in his basement office.) “All I seem to read at the moment is novels that have been optioned or ideas for scripts.

1. I’m in this strange position right now insofar as I have to decide whether I continue working only with John, which I really enjoy doing, or make a leap into being a screenwriter for hire.
2. I’m not sure that’s where I want to go.
3. It seems like a step too far into that world.
4. I can see myself suddenly waking up one morning and asking myself, ‘What the fuck am I doing this for?'” Cave has already dubbed Lawless a “wangster” movie, a rather unfortunate label for a film that deftly merges the tropes of the urban gangster and the rural western with considerable style.

With nods to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, it stars Tom Hardy as the leader of the three Bondurant brothers, backwoods bootleggers who battle the law and anyone else who crosses their path in Prohibition-era Virginia.

Gary Oldman shines as Floyd Banner, a city gangster whose criminal empire is spreading inexorably into Franklin County, where the Bondurants are revered as local legends, but it is the arrival of a malevolent marshal, Charlie Rakes, played by Guy Pearce, that ignites the war of attrition that escalates throughout the film’s long narrative arc.

Lawless also merges the lyrical and the ultra-violent, with a pair of protracted romances providing welcome light relief from the often bloody set-pieces. (Paradoxically, in a film full of extravagant male acting, it is Jessica Chastain as the sexy, but haunted, Maggie, and the brilliant Mia Wasikowska as the innocent, but mischievous, Bertha, that command most attention with their understated performances.) Revenge is the driving force of the story and the world the brothers inhabit often seems as brutal and unforgiving as a certain kind of broodingly melodramatic Nick Cave song – The Mercy Seat, say, or Your Funeral My Trial.

“Well, the violence was there in the book, which is pretty savage in places,” says Cave, somewhat defensively, when I mention this. (The film is based on The Wettest County in the World, subsequently republished as Lawless, a historical novel by Matt Bondurant, a grandson of Jack, the youngest brother, who is played by Shia LaBeouf.) “In fact, a lot of the truly brutal stuff did not make it through into the film.

In the book, you get lulled by the beautiful lyricism of the writing, then suddenly you are slapped in the face by a graphic description of a killing. I tried to be true to that as much as I could.” The film, like the book, plays with the mythology of the seemingly invincible outlaw, in this instance Forrest Bondurant, the middle brother, who, as the violence around him escalates, somehow survives against the odds to fight again.

• It’s not so much a true story as a true myth,” says Cave.
• Forrest is a bit like Ned Kelly: he just keeps on coming back.” Hardy plays Forrest as a kind of taciturn patriarch, all grunts and sighs and very few words, someone who is passive in all respects apart from one – his capacity for brutal vengeance.

“Tom really interpreted the character in such a different way than what was on the page,” says Cave. “It confounded John to begin with, but he really created something interesting. I was totally impressed by his unique way of thinking. At one point, he said to me: ‘I just want to play it like an old lesbian.’ That blew me away.

1. He saw the role as being essentially maternal, so when Maggie comes in, there’s a tension in the family.
2. It was a lesson for me in how far an actor can go in interpreting a role.” Pearce, another Australian, also ups the ante with his portrayal of special agent Rakes, a city cop with some simmering psychosexual issues that predictably manifest themselves in moments of sadistic violence.

In the novel, Rakes is a redneck country cop. Where did all the other baggage come from? “Well, initially, Guy Pearce said he would play the role if I made it more memorable,” says Cave, grinning. “So, I just based it loosely on myself.” More than once, Cave mentions how much he has learned from screenwriting.

• This begs the obvious question: how different is film-making from music-making? “Oh, it’s another world.
• With Lawless, I saw what it was like to work at the cliff face of film-making.
• It’s tough and it’s taxing and you wonder how they get through it.
• There are so many people involved, for a start.
• There isn’t that sense of anxiety about making a record.

There is something beautiful about going into the studio with your friends and making music together. It’s essentially a beautiful thing – if it works. As far as I can see, there is never that moment in a film where it’s just you and what you have created.” Following on from The Proposition and The Road, Cave has also composed the soundtrack for Lawless with his now-constant collaborator, Warren Ellis, violinist with the Bad Seeds.

Using a core group of friends called the Bootleggers, they invited several guest vocalists, including Emmylou Harris and Mark Lanegan, to interpret standards such as Link Wray’s Fire and Brimstone and the Velvet Underground’s White Light, White Heat. Over the closing credits, the latter is dramatically reinterpreted as a trad-country ballad about bootlegging by bluegrass veteran Ralph Stanley.

It works, but Stanley took some persuading. “It was extraordinary the way that happened,” says Cave, shaking his head as if he still has not quite made sense of the encounter. “Initially, we sent him some version we had recorded that we thought he could sing on, but he was like: ‘What is this shit? I can’t fucking sing over this!’ Not exactly those words, right, but that was the general impression that came back to us.

• But we didn’t want to make a pristine score.
• People kept saying, ‘Wait until we get to LA, then we can get some real musicians to play the songs properly,’ and we were like, ‘Fuck you.
• We’re going to play them the way we want to play them.'” Things became even more surreal when they hooked up with Stanley and his guitarist on Skype.

“Ralph is a serious guy and his guitarist is even more so. We asked him to cover Link Wray’s Fire and Brimstone and he did it in 3/4 time, with a swing, because that’s what he knows. So, there’s Warren and me trying to explain that we want it in 4/4 time – rock’n’roll.

• Ralph is saying nothing and the guitarist is just looking at us as like he wants to string us up.
• It was like: ‘Who the hell are these freaks telling Ralph Stanley how to sing?'” In the end, they employed the services of renowned musical curator and producer Hal Willner, who had the good sense to let Stanley sing the songs in his own way.

The result, particularly on White Light, White Heat, is pure gold. “Hal got in touch with Lou Reed, who was working in a studio down the road in LA. We played it to him and he was just blown away. It was an amazing moment.” I ask Nick Cave, in conclusion, if writing scripts has made writing songs any easier.

“Sadly, I don’t think so. Songwriting is a much more intangible thing. It comes out of a place that I don’t really understand and I am always grappling with it. Often, it feels more like it’s in the hands of the gods, insofar as you never really know if what you are working on is any good. But, you know, songwriting is what I do.

Making music is still the primary function. In a way,” he says, smiling, “screenwriting is something to do between records.” : Nick Cave: ‘Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth’

How old was Bob Bondurant when he died?

Death – Bondurant died in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on November 12, 2021, at the age of 88. He is survived by his wife Pat. A statement on his death reads, in part, “Bondurant is the only American to bring home the World Championship trophy back to the U.S.

While racing for Carroll Shelby. He won his class at Le Mans and has been inducted into ten motorsports halls of fame. Bondurant Racing School was founded in 1968 and has graduated celebrities for car movies like James Garner, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, and Christian Bale, along with over 500,000 graduates from around the world.

His legacy will remain with us forever.”

Where is Howard Bondurant buried?

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How many Bondurant brothers are there?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story

Author	Matt Bondurant
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Historical novel, Crime novel
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	October 14, 2008
Media type	Print ( Hardback & Paperback )
Pages	320 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN	1-4165-6139-0 (hardback edition)

The Wettest County in the World is a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant, an American writer who features his grandfather Jack and grand-uncles Forrest and Howard as the main characters in the novel. The book tells of the trio during the Depression and Prohibition in rural Virginia, who made a living bootlegging moonshine,

Where are Pete and Pat Bondurant now?

13350007-large.jpg Pat Bondurant, left, and his twin brother, Pete, in recent photos from the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Pete Bondurant, a 61-year-old Tennessee man convicted in one of Alabama’s most notorious murders was released from prison in December, 26 years after he was convicted in the death of 24-year-old single mother Gwen Dugger of Ardmore.

According to the Giles County District Attorney General’s Office and the Tennesee Department of Corrections, Pete was released Dec.21, 2016, after completing his sentence. His twin brother, Pat Bondurant, also convicted in Dugger’s death as well as the death of a coworker, remains incarcerated in the Northeast Correctional Complex in Mountain City, Tenn.

It is unclear where Pete is living. District Attorney General Brent Cooper said Thursday that because Bondurant served his term, he is not required to report to anyone. He said he does not know where Pete Bondurant is living and his office was not notified by prison officials before his release.

• It’s the first time I’ve seen a case like this,” Cooper said, referring to a case in which a man convicted of causing two deaths and acting as an accomplice in a third was released from prison.
• I was at his last parole hearing (which was denied) and at that hearing, Mr.
• Bondurant testified he was a changed man, that he was no longer the man he was when he committed these acts.

We can only hope there’s some shred of truth to what he said.” On Dec.30, 2016, nine days after his release, either Pete or someone else set up the Facebook page in his name. It shows a what appears to be a current photo of Pete, smiling in a flannel shirt and overalls.

• Click here to see his profile.
• The murder of Gwen Dugger Hugh “Pete” Bondurant and Kenneth Patterson “Pat” Bondurant never fit most people’s images of murderers.
• The twin brothers were well known in their hometown of Pulaski, Tenn., and their oversized figures, about 350 pounds each, were often seen wearing their typical uniform of flannel shirts and overalls.

They were easy to tell apart – Pat wore eyeglasses. The Giles County, Tenn., farmhouse where Gwen Dugger was murdered, shown above, is no longer standing in its original location. (Contributed photo) The initial arrest of the twins in 1990 shocked residents. But testimony in the twins’ trial for the death of Dugger, who disappeared from her Ardmore, Ala., in 1986, left no doubt that they were, in fact, murderers.

• Because Dugger’s body was never found, the Bondurants received only 25-year prison sentences.
• Testimony also emerged that the “Bondurant Boys” had a “Manson-like” following of young people who came to Pat’s Elkton, Tenn., farmhouse for drugs.
• Pat’s wife, Denise, testified against her husband and brother-in-law, saying she watched the brothers rape, torture and shoot the young mother before burning her body in a 55-gallon drum and dumping the ashes in a creek near Pat’s rented farmhouse near the Shady Lawn Truck Stop in Elkton.

Murders of Ronnie Gaines and Terry Lynn Clark Later, the brothers were tried individually for the 1986 beating death of Pat’s coworker Ronnie Gaines, whose charred bones were unearthed in the front yard of the Bondurants’ parents’ Giles County home. Pat was convicted of the murder and Pete was convicted of helping his brother dismember and burn Gaines’ body.

1. Pete was also sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 1986 murder of Terry Lynn Clark.
2. According to the Tennessee Department of Corrections website, Pat is eligible for parole in 2019 and release in 2069.
3. ‘Evil Twins’ In 2014, the Investigation Discovery show aired an episode of “Evil Twins” featuring the Bondurant case.

A production crew with Siren Media came to Pulaski in 2013 to conduct interviews and shoot footage for the show. Click here to see a synopsis of the show. Another episode of “Evil Twins” featured the murder trial of Betty Wilson, who was convicted of killing her eye doctor husband in Huntsville.

Where is Maggie Bondurant buried?

Death Certificate states she was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Martinsville VA. Wife of James Forrest Bondurant in 1936 according to marriage cert.

What is the 2 wettest place in the world?

Average annual rainfall: 11,777mm –

• Ironically, despite of being the second wettest place on Earth, residents of this village face water shortages in winter when no rain falls at all for months at a time.
• During the wet season, incessant rains lash the region, sometimes for 15-21 days at a stretch.
• The area is also famous for its waterfalls, hills and living root bridges.

Which is 1 the wettest place on Earth?

In pictures: The wettest places on Earth! 01 Our planet is a mix bag of different climates, seasons and weathers. From dry and wet to hot and cold, some places on the Earth get extreme weather, and some have just one or two weather conditions. Here, we have a list of the wettest or the rainiest places that exist on the planet. 02 For those who don’t know, Mawsynram in Meghalaya, India, is the wettest place on the Earth, with an average annual rainfall of 11,871 mm. Set some 15 km from Cherrapunji, this picturesque town in the East Khasi Hills district attracts travellers from across the globe. 03 Before Mawsynram, Cherrapunji held the record of being the wettest place on the planet, with an average annual rainfall of 11,777 mm. During the peak monsoons, Cherrapunji experiences non-stop rains, sometimes lasting for 15 to 20 days. 04 Can you believe that this beautiful place has two rainy seasons, which means it rains here all year round! Tutunendo has an extremely wet tropical rainforest climate, with an average annual rainfall of 11770 mm. 05 Also known as Ureka or Ureca, San Antonio de Ureca is a pretty hamlet in Bioko Sur. It is the wettest region in the whole African Continent with an average annual rainfall of 10,450 mm. 06 Another African village, Debundscha is set by Mount Cameroon, which happens to be Africa’s highest peak. The village receives an average annual rainfall of 10,299 mm and its location plays an important role in heavy rains. 07 A popular tourist attraction in Hawaii, Big Bog receives an average annual rainfall of 10,272 mm. The place is visited by hundreds of travellers, despite being drenched in incessant rains. 08 It’s basically an extinct volcano in Hawaii, and receives an average annual rainfall of 9,763 mm. It rains so heavily here that access is quite difficult. 09 This is the highest of the Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism in China. The region receives rainfall almost throughout the year due to a phenomenon known as Clouds Sea, During monsoons, a double layer of clouds is created, leading to heavy downpours here. Nevertheless, the place is scenic. : In pictures: The wettest places on Earth!

Which is the old wettest place on Earth?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Sohra” redirects here. For places in Iran, see Sohra, Iran,

Cherrapunji Sohra
Town
Sohra has held the record for highest rainfall multiple times in the past
Cherrapunji Location in Meghalaya Show map of Meghalaya Show map of India Show all
Coordinates: 25°17′02″N 91°43′16″E  /  25.284°N 91.721°E Coordinates : 25°17′02″N 91°43′16″E  /  25.284°N 91.721°E
Country	India
State	Meghalaya
District	East Khasi Hills
Elevation	1,430 m (4,690 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	14,816
• Density	397/km 2 (1,030/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Khasi, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 ( IST )
Telephone code	03637
Precipitation	11,777 millimetres (463.7 in)
Climate	Cwb
Website	http://cherrapunjee.gov.in/

Cherrapunji () or Sohra is a subdivisional town (Proposed District) East Khasi Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya, It is the traditional capital of ka hima Sohra (Khasi tribal kingdom). Sohra has often been credited as being the wettest place on Earth, but for now nearby Mawsynram currently holds that distinction.

Was Charlie Rakes a real person?

The very first thing I want to do in this column is to tip my hat to “Boss Charlie” Boothe, publisher of the News-Post. His review of the movie “Lawless” on the front page of Friday’s edition was great! It was a professional type of review and in my opinion, one that ‘”nailed” the movie, its contents and the quality of the acting.

1. I wish this column could have appeared the same day because I would have selected something else for a topic of this one.
2. Boss Charlie” and I saw the movie at the same time during a special media showing, for the lack of better term, a week ago today.
3. In some ways, it seems a lot longer than that.
4. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time between opening night and Monday answering questions about my opinion of the moonshine movie, based on Matt Bondurant’s fictional novel “The Wettest County in the World.” The movie, as stated by another film reviewer, was a story about real life events that happened some 80 years ago.

When questioned, my first reply is always “I enjoyed it.” It was the first serious moonshine movie since Robert Mitchum’s “Thunder Road,” which was released way back in 1958. I’m sure there are a lot of folks around who’ve never heard of that movie. I think there’s been a couple “flicks” about making white lightning, but none really stand out.

• But those who haven’t heard about “Lawless” must have been out of the county (or country) for a long time.
• The movie was two years in the making before the book was published in 2008, as I recall.
• The film was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this year.
• The book and movie are about three Bondurant Brothers, Jack, Forrest and Howard, who made moonshine in the Snow Creek area in the early to mid-1930s.

If you have already read the book and asked questions, you would have learned a lot of it is fiction. I’ve been a movie “buff” since childhood days in Marion. I do not proclaim to be a movie critic. I just have an opinion about the movie. Later in life, I got away from going to see movies on a regular basis.

Growing up in Marion, the beautiful Lincoln Theater was within walking distance of my home. Any time I could scrape up a dime, I’d head off to the picture show. Saturdays were special. For 10 cents, I could see a western and mystery movie, plus a cartoon and a chapter of a 15-week long serial. And I could watch it over and over as long as I didn’t leave the theater.

When I really got into reading books of interest, I learned one thing was very true when it came to books later arriving at the theater. I never saw a movie based on a novel that I ever enjoyed. Hollywood has its way of writing and producing an almost totally different story line on the silver screen.

So when I heard about Bondurant’s book being sold to a film company, I knew the author’s storyline would be changed dramatically. Everyone felt the movie should be filmed in Franklin County. But the state lost out to Georgia in getting the film shot there. At least the film company went to a mountainous area outside Atlanta.

The next fact I learned is that if you read a book and plan to go see the movie, it’s safe to assume the book would be changed to almost beyond belief. “Lawless” wasted little time in getting started after using the book’s first chapter as the opener.

Actors portraying the Bondurant brothers quickly established the types of roles they would be portraying. Jack is revealed as a teenager who can’t wait to become a man. He thinks he’s mature enough to join his big brothers. He looks up to his older brother, Forrest, depicted as the established leader. Howard is a heavy drinker who runs for trouble rather than away from it.

Of course, family members and others who knew the trio are quick to tell you the brothers were good, non-violent men. Like others, they just made illegal liquor because it was in the days of Prohibition and the Depression. Betty Mitchell, one of Jack Bondurant’s daughters, pointed out a true fact after seeing the movie.

• The Bondurants never shot anybody.” I’ve simply advised everyone to just go to the theater with your mind wide open and view it strictly as a movie about three moonshining brothers who were living in really hard times.
• Viewers also need to remember at that point in the nation’s history, very few people had jobs.

Those who were fortunate enough to own or live on a farm raised everything possible to keep from starving. Take special interest and check out all the old vehicles, buildings, clothing, etc., of the period. The first thing shown on the screen when the film opens is “Franklin County-1931.” Of particular interest is the last old photo featured on the screen just before the house lights are turned on again.

I’m not going to ruin that part for anyone who hasn’t seen the movie. I think you will agree.) The film writer used only four real names when selecting names for the characters. Three are the Bondurant brothers. The other is Charlie Rakes. In real life, Rakes was a Franklin County deputy sheriff involved with another officer in a shoot-out at a road block.

Rakes, in the movie, turned out to be a federal ATF officer sent from Chicago to crush the local moonshine profession. The character is a slick operator with greasy black hair. He’s also mean and heartless, unlike the real Charlie Rakes. I know his grandson probably wasn’t pleased with the way his grandfather was portrayed.

Any moviegoer knows that violence, profanity and sex are needed to get a “R” rated movie. It’s generally needed to produce more profits at the box office. The movie has a lot more violence than suited me, as well as too much profanity. I think people can tolerate the nudity scenes. And I’m not talking “X” rated when it comes to the rare romantic parts.

Almost 200 members of the Mitchell/Bondurant clan attended the 7 p.m. show Wednesday. The group included two of Jack Bondurant’s daughters, Betty Mitchell and Emmiee Lee Bondurant Gagney, along with a son, G.T. There was a host of grandchildren and I assume great-grandchildren.

• Among the first people I saw going into the first show were Howard and Betty Mitchell, along with their sons, Ronnie, Steve, David and Andrew.
• The latter is the one who put me onto the story in February 2011, when actor Jason Clarke came to his house in Snow Creek.
• I spent several hours that day with the actor from Australia and found him to be very interesting.

He spent a couple of days here learning to speak the Snow Creek dialect. At the time, he knew he would be portraying Howard in the movie but had no clue about how he would be portraying Howard’s character. When Clarke was in Franklin County, his curly hair hadn’t been cut recently nor had he shaven in perhaps weeks.

• He had an unruly appearance, to say the least.
• Right now, I don’t know how (producers) want me to look,” Clarke said.
• The crew and cast reported to the movie set the following Monday.
• And judging from Clarke’s appearance in the movie, he never got his hair cut nor his beard trimmed after arriving in Georgia.

One thing is for sure, Howard’s character drinks ‘shine from a lot of different Mason jars during the movie. When I first saw Jason, he reminded me of the late Marlon Brando. His acting style also took me back to the days of Brando. I told Andrew Wednesday night I had concentrated on Clarke’s Snow Creek “Southern drawl” as I watched the show.

I also thought all of the actors/actresses in the movie did an outstanding job with “talking the talk.” Also impressive were the old vehicles, sound effects, period clothing and props. Legendary Ralph Stanley’s song was the best of the old music used. But I have yet to see a moonshine operation being destroyed by dynamite that created a ball of flames and a mushroom black cloud.

Then again, it’s just a movie. I did like the way producers introduced the use of a “submarine” still to the movie. The Bondurant brothers were using “subs” for the first time to increase production. “Lawless” filmmakers went to several “extremes” to produce different types of violence.

Like in many western movies, gunfights lasted way too long, as did the road-block scene near the end. They must have brought along a lot of extra ammunition to complete that scene. Comments and discussions about the movie will go on for a long time in Franklin County. I’m sure just about everyone has an opinion.

And the movie will help keep Franklin County’s reputation alive. It seems anytime I go anywhere and mention I’m from Franklin County, a person will reply, “You’re from where they make the moonshine.” Sometimes they use the term “moonshine capital.” Maybe a few might even remark they’ve had a drink or two of white lightning.

1. I’m sure this has happened to you.
2. For those who know nothing about the county’s background and the profession and are fascinated by the art of making moonshine, then “Lawless” is probably a good chance to see it all.
3. Lawless” ranked no.2 at the box office last weekend, making $13 million in three days, according to comingsoon.net,

Let me back to the beginning for a moment. I most of all liked the movie’s ending. It came as a total surprise to me and lots of others. It was not what I expected. But I loved it! I’d like to hear what you have to say. Hummers are all but gone – Like may other lovers of the little birds, my hummers have all but disappeared.

As of Monday, the count is down to a pair of females. I’m thinking about giving the two individual names. But no one has an answer as to why they’re moving out so early. What happened to that large number that arrived after July 4? Who knows? Beard problem – I guess I’ve had a beard since 1982. Did you ever notice a lot of men will often run their hand over the beard? I guess this is to smooth out, straighten up or flatten down a “wild” hair or two.

I often laugh out loud when “Victor,” our 19-month-old Schnauzer, gets his whiskers out of place. Sometimes he’ll stick his nose (and whiskers) into a freshly dug mole hole. Sometimes a strong puff of wind will cause his whiskers to turn in different directions.

But Victor has a way of taking care of the problem. It’s the same way men do. Well, almost. He’ll take his front paw(s) and stroke downward on his whiskers until they’re back in place. Sometimes he doesn’t get them exactly as wanted, so he just keeps trying. Eventually, he gets the whiskers back into place.

Only then is Mr. Victor ready to get on with whatever he was doing.

Did Jack Bondurant have kids?

Bobby Bondurant is the son of Jack Bondurant, the main character in the new movie ‘Lawless.’ Bobby recalled his father working in the moonshine business until he was about 11 years old. Pictured at his home in Amherst, Va., August 23, 2012.

Who was cricket to the Bondurant brothers?

TWC The 2012 film Lawless is currently in the Top 10 most watched list on Netflix. It’s a movie about three boot-legging brothers set during the Great Depression. The crime drama, which received mixed reviews from critics, is based on a historical novel by Matt Bondurant, and was adapted for screen by singer-songwriter Nick Cave.

It features a number of big stars in its cast, including Tom Hardy, Shia LeBeof, Jessica Chastain, and Guy Pearce, One of the supporting characters in Lawless is Cricket Pate, a friend of the Bondurant brothers, who assists them with their business. Cricket is a sweet-natured, loyal-to-the-end comrade to the Bondurants, as well as an expert moonshine engineer.

While the actor who plays Cricket loses himself seamlessly in the role, viewers may still get the sense that they’ve seen him somewhere before. They’d be right. The actor is Dane DeHaan, a veteran of both stage and screen who has earned rave reviews for his impressive range of performances.

Was Forrest Bondurant in ww1?

Get The Big To-Do Your guide to staying entertained, from live shows and outdoor fun to the newest in museums, movies, TV, books, dining, and more. Tom Hardy plays Forrest Bondurant in the new movie “Lawless,” based on Matt Bondurant’s book. Richard Foreman Jr./Weinstein Company “Lawless” is a fast-paced feature, adapted by screenwriter Nick Cave (because Matt Bondurant was busy hammering out another novel), and directed by John Hillcoat, whose previous credits include “The Road” (2009), starring Viggo Mortensen.

The new film jumps right into the action, with the Bondurant brothers on a late-night booze delivery in the big city. Over several years of studying his family’s history for the book, Matt Bondurant learned that Jack, the youngest of the trio, was considered a hothead and a bit immature. Howard, the middle brother, was a brawler, who may have partaken a little too often in the family product, and Forrest was the silent, stoic type — all characterizations that come out in the opening minutes of “Lawless.” From the beginning, the film oozes danger and apprehension, as the brothers always seem to be a step away from a deadly encounter with shady cops and federal agents.

And the tension is only bolstered by the legend of Forrest Bondurant’s nine lives. “There was this belief that Forrest was invincible, that he couldn’t die,” Bondurant says. “He had survived brutal attacks in Europe during WWI, in which others died. He always seemed to escape death at home in conflicts arising around his bootlegging.

• There was the time his throat was cut during a robbery attempt at the family restaurant, and he reportedly got himself to the hospital about 12 miles away.
• And sure, we know that no one is actually invincible.
• But he lived in a time where people were desperate for super figures and larger than life characters.

And I suspect that’s how his legend grew.” And where “danger” films often show some form of respite for the protagonists, only Jack Bondurant seeks a normal life throughout most of “Lawless,” in his taste for fine clothes and cars and his romantic pursuit of a strict preacher’s daughter.

That it’s fact-based places “Lawless” in the company of other powerful films about Prohibition, including “The Public Enemy,” a 1931 feature that catapulted Jimmy Cagney to stardom and is credited with being the first movie of the gangster genre. It was followed by a range of other hits, among them the 1959 comedy classic “Some Like It Hot,” in which Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play musicians in drag, fleeing mobsters after accidentally witnessing a gang hit, and 1984’s “Once Upon a Time in America,” featuring Robert De Niro and James Woods as fledgling gangsters and bootleggers.

The movies drive home the point that “regular” people were caught up in the Prohibition Era war between government and criminal. “Prohibition was so extreme — the idea of the government of the United States and to some degree the people of the United States imposing this moral, almost religious thing on other people — it instantly made about half the population of the US lawbreakers,” said Paul Schneider, chairman of the film and television department at Boston University’s College of Communication.

Released this incredible almost collusion between the criminal underground and ordinary people. It was a very rich period for film. And I think that’s why we continue to see stories like this one emerge.” According to Northern Virginia newspaper clippings, the Bondurant Boys were the real deal — labeled as dangerous, ruthless, and the biggest and best bootleggers in their rural community, possessing all the “ingredients” of a classic American “romance” story.

“And that was exactly how it grabbed me the first time I heard about them,” Bondurant said in a recent interview in Boston. “I was probably 16 the first time I heard these stories at a family gathering, and I was in awe, fascinated by what these men were said to have done and the name they made for themselves.

You have to understand, in my family, at least with my older relatives, Jack, Howard, and Forrest were not topics of conversation in this light. “I don’t know if it was so much a matter of shame as in people just thought it was immodest to talk in a way about their exploits that might come across as boastful.

So to hear about their bootlegging for the first time was a life-changing experience. It opened the door, you might say, to the mystery of their lives. And I set out to fill in as many of the blanks as I could.” But there was a limit to the details that Bondurant could dig up in newspaper clips and family records, so he reached a crossroads in his efforts to assemble the Bondurant Boys’ story.

It would have been great to tell their story in the form of a biography,” Bondurant says. “But the fact is there were too many fine details missing to do that well. And so I decided to write it as a fact-based novel and use my own imagination — based on the facts I’d found — to fill in the blanks.” Bondurant said that process gave him a sense of creative freedom and may have made the story more fun, more engaging for readers.

Bondurant’s readers may not have been thrilled though that in the 11th hour, his publishing house, Scribner, announced that “The Wettest County in the World” would be reissued with a new title, “Lawless.” “They do these things for marketing purposes,” Bondurant said.

“The story, the book remains the same — based on true events. And I think in the end that’s what will be most important to people.” He also believes that “Lawless,” the movie, for all its violence and danger, helps shed light on one of a handful of major periods in US history in which the government was on the wrong side of the law.

According to old Anti-Saloon League of America yearbooks, there were towns at the start of Prohibition in 1920 that sold or dismantled their jails because they were so convinced that alcohol was the root cause of all crime and without it, there’d be no need for lockups.

• The Ku Klux Klan supported Prohibition, says the Journal of Social History.
• And “The American Mix” reports that religious activists wrote a new English translation of the Bible during Prohibition with all references to alcohol removed.
• So it wasn’t just fascinating to me, but it is the kind of story people tend to love,” Bondurant said.

“And that era was one of those rare periods where most people, I think, sided with the outlaws and not the authorities. If you look back at our nation’s history, there is this type of support that arises when the law in question seems unjust — in this case, telling people they weren’t allowed to purchase or sell alcohol.

What town was the Bondurant brothers from?

Background – The novel, inspired by the author’s paternal grandfather Jack and two grand-uncles, Forrest and Howard, focuses on the historical events of the Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy, a series of events and a trial related to the illegal activities of the moonshiners in Franklin County.

Sherwood Anderson was there working as a journalist at the time. To research the historical period, Bondurant listened to family stories and used archival records, news clippings and court transcripts. Locals began to think of the three brothers as “indestructible” because all of them survived. In an essay, Bondurant said that he had illegal moonshine from Franklin County, despite having been raised in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.

As a teenager, he first drank moonshine, and he knows his relatives in Franklin County drank moonshine at family events. Bondurant said he had difficulty getting information from people in Franklin when researching the novel. The illegal liquor-making in the county is a topic not often broached in public.

Where are Pete and Pat Bondurant now?

13350007-large.jpg Pat Bondurant, left, and his twin brother, Pete, in recent photos from the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Pete Bondurant, a 61-year-old Tennessee man convicted in one of Alabama’s most notorious murders was released from prison in December, 26 years after he was convicted in the death of 24-year-old single mother Gwen Dugger of Ardmore.

According to the Giles County District Attorney General’s Office and the Tennesee Department of Corrections, Pete was released Dec.21, 2016, after completing his sentence. His twin brother, Pat Bondurant, also convicted in Dugger’s death as well as the death of a coworker, remains incarcerated in the Northeast Correctional Complex in Mountain City, Tenn.

It is unclear where Pete is living. District Attorney General Brent Cooper said Thursday that because Bondurant served his term, he is not required to report to anyone. He said he does not know where Pete Bondurant is living and his office was not notified by prison officials before his release.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen a case like this,” Cooper said, referring to a case in which a man convicted of causing two deaths and acting as an accomplice in a third was released from prison. “I was at his last parole hearing (which was denied) and at that hearing, Mr. Bondurant testified he was a changed man, that he was no longer the man he was when he committed these acts.

We can only hope there’s some shred of truth to what he said.” On Dec.30, 2016, nine days after his release, either Pete or someone else set up the Facebook page in his name. It shows a what appears to be a current photo of Pete, smiling in a flannel shirt and overalls.

Click here to see his profile. The murder of Gwen Dugger Hugh “Pete” Bondurant and Kenneth Patterson “Pat” Bondurant never fit most people’s images of murderers. The twin brothers were well known in their hometown of Pulaski, Tenn., and their oversized figures, about 350 pounds each, were often seen wearing their typical uniform of flannel shirts and overalls.

They were easy to tell apart – Pat wore eyeglasses. The Giles County, Tenn., farmhouse where Gwen Dugger was murdered, shown above, is no longer standing in its original location. (Contributed photo) The initial arrest of the twins in 1990 shocked residents. But testimony in the twins’ trial for the death of Dugger, who disappeared from her Ardmore, Ala., in 1986, left no doubt that they were, in fact, murderers.

Because Dugger’s body was never found, the Bondurants received only 25-year prison sentences. Testimony also emerged that the “Bondurant Boys” had a “Manson-like” following of young people who came to Pat’s Elkton, Tenn., farmhouse for drugs. Pat’s wife, Denise, testified against her husband and brother-in-law, saying she watched the brothers rape, torture and shoot the young mother before burning her body in a 55-gallon drum and dumping the ashes in a creek near Pat’s rented farmhouse near the Shady Lawn Truck Stop in Elkton.

Murders of Ronnie Gaines and Terry Lynn Clark Later, the brothers were tried individually for the 1986 beating death of Pat’s coworker Ronnie Gaines, whose charred bones were unearthed in the front yard of the Bondurants’ parents’ Giles County home. Pat was convicted of the murder and Pete was convicted of helping his brother dismember and burn Gaines’ body.

Pete was also sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 1986 murder of Terry Lynn Clark. According to the Tennessee Department of Corrections website, Pat is eligible for parole in 2019 and release in 2069. ‘Evil Twins’ In 2014, the Investigation Discovery show aired an episode of “Evil Twins” featuring the Bondurant case.

A production crew with Siren Media came to Pulaski in 2013 to conduct interviews and shoot footage for the show. Click here to see a synopsis of the show. Another episode of “Evil Twins” featured the murder trial of Betty Wilson, who was convicted of killing her eye doctor husband in Huntsville.

How old was Bob Bondurant when he died?

Death – Bondurant died in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on November 12, 2021, at the age of 88. He is survived by his wife Pat. A statement on his death reads, in part, “Bondurant is the only American to bring home the World Championship trophy back to the U.S.

• While racing for Carroll Shelby.
• He won his class at Le Mans and has been inducted into ten motorsports halls of fame.
• Bondurant Racing School was founded in 1968 and has graduated celebrities for car movies like James Garner, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Nicolas Cage, and Christian Bale, along with over 500,000 graduates from around the world.

His legacy will remain with us forever.”

Where is Lawless supposed to take place?

Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits. In 1931, in Franklin County, Virginia, Forrest Bondurant is a legend as immortal after surviving the war. Together with his brothers Howard and the coward Jack, the Bondurant family has a distillery and bootlegging business. When the corrupt District Attorney Mason Wardell arrives in Franklin with the unscrupulous Special Deputy Charles Rakes, the Bondurant family refuses to pay the required bribe to the authorities. Rakes pursues the brothers and unsuccessfully tries to find their distillery. Meanwhile Forrest hires the waitress Maggie, a woman with a hidden past in Chicago, and they fall in love with each other. Jack courts the preacher’s daughter Bertha Minnix and deals a great load of alcoholic liquor with the powerful gangster Floyd Banner. Jack shows off in Franklin attracting the attention of Rakes that finds the location of their distillery. When he kills the crippled Cricket Pete, the locals join forces to face the corrupt authorities. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Three rebellious, bootlegging brothers find the elusive American Dream within their reach, and fight to maintain their grip as powerful urban gangsters reap the rewards of their hard work in this sprawling Great Depression-era crime drama from director John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition). At the height of Prohibition, ambitious country boy Jack Bondurant dreams of becoming “Public Enemy #1” while reaping all the benefits that go with the gangster lifestyle. By expanding his family’s moon shining business, he plots to launch a vast criminal empire while winning the heart of beautiful Amish girl Bertha. With his older, intimidating brother Howard by his side, Jack has the brawn to get the job done, too. But they need a strong leader to guide them – a responsibility that falls on their eldest sibling Forrest. Stoic and stalwart, Forrest is the kind of man who holds his cards close, and places a high value on character. Meanwhile, as the three siblings rise to power while battling treachery on both sides of the law, a mysterious woman named Maggie appears out of nowhere, prompting the thoughtful Forrest to question the true price of his outlaw ways. In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Va., run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business, bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest (Tom Hardy) is the brain of the operation; older Howard (Jason Clarke) is the brawn, and younger Jack (Shia LaBeouf), the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman (Guy Pearce) from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation. — krmanirethnam The three Bondurant brothers run a bootlegging operation during the depression, up in the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia. Crooked Special Deputy Charles Rakes is after a share of the brothers’ profits. Compounding their troubles, the local competition is elbowing in on their activities. Forrest’s boisterous defiance and Cricket’s knack for moonshine production help the brothers gain a local monopoly. When Forrest is wounded as tension with Rakes escalates, Jack, initially the timid one, must prove his worth against gangster Floyd Banner’s mob, and we see him metamorphose into a cocky exhibitionist in his attempts to woo the off-limits preacher’s daughter, Bertha. — Anonymous

During the Prohibition era, the Bondurant brothers – Forrest (Tom Hardy), Howard (Jason Clarke) and Jack (Shia LaBeouf) – run a successful liquor bootlegging business in Franklin County, Virginia, with the help of their friend, Cricket Pate (Dane DeHaan), using their bar as a front for their illegal activities. One day, Jack witnesses mobster Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman) eliminating a competitor and they exchange looks before Jack returns to the bar, where Forrest hires Maggie Beauford (Jessica Chastain), a dancer from Chicago, to be their new waitress. Shortly afterwards, the bar is visited by brutal Special Agent Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce), on behalf of District Attorney Mason Wardell. Rakes informs Forrest that he wants a cut of all profit made by Franklin’s bootleggers, but Forrest refuses and threatens to kill Rakes if he returns. Forrest later meets with the other bootleggers and convinces them to stand up to Rakes as well, though they eventually give in to Rakes’ violent intimidation tactics. Meanwhile, Jack meets Bertha Minnix (Mia Wasikowska), daughter of the local preacher. He attends the church drunk and makes a fool of himself, causing Bertha’s father to forbid her from seeing him, which only makes her more interested in Jack, with whom she flirts. Jack later finds Rakes raiding Cricket’s house in search of his distilation equipment. When they don’t find it, Rakes brutally beats Jack when he tries to intervene. Forrest hears of this and tells Jack that he needs to learn how to fight for himself. Forrest and Howard arrange to meet with potential clients from Chicago, but Howard misses his appointment to get drunk with a friend, and Forrest ends up beating the two men with Cricket’s help when they harrass Maggie. Later, after Cricket leaves, the men return, slash Forrest’s throat, and rape Maggie. Howard and Jack meet a surviving Forrest at the hospital, and Jack decides to travel to Chicago with Cricket to sell the liquor. Arriving there, they are doublecrossed by their clients, but are rescued by Banner, who recognizes Jack. Banner already knows of the attack on Forrest, as well as the identities of the two assailants, and he provides Jack with their address, and also advises Jack that they are working for Rakes. Forrest and Howard later find, torture, and kill the men to send a message to Rakes. Banner becomes a regular client of the brothers, who move their distilation equipment to the woods and have great profit. The money allows Jack to continue courting Bertha, while Forrest begins a relationship with Maggie after she moves into the bar for her safety, though she doesn’t tell him she was raped. Jack eventually decides to show Bertha the distilation center, but they are ambushed by Rakes and his men, who had followed her. Howard incapacitates Rakes and Jack nearly kills him before they are forced to flee from Rakes’s men with Bertha and Cricket, who is later recaptured and murdered by Rakes, who snaps his neck. Wanting revenge for Cricket’s death, Jack goes to confront Rakes and his men at a roadblock in the local bridge. Howard follows after him, rallying the bootleggers to come to their aid. Forrest decides to join them, though Maggie tries to dissuade him, telling him that it was she who had found him with his throat slashed and took him to the hospital. Forrest realizes then that she was also attacked that night, but Maggie continues to deny having been raped. The bootleggers engage Rakes’ men in a violent firefight, during which Rakes shoots Forrest multiple times before being shot in the leg and attempting to escape. A wounded Jack follows him to the bridge and shoots Rakes in the chest, wounding him. Howard later stabs Rakes with a large knife and leaves him to bleed to death. With Rakes and his men dead, the Bondurant Brothers decide to save their money and retire after Prohibition ends. Jack marries Bertha, Forrest marries Maggie, and Howard marries a local woman, all having children. During a reunion at Jack’s house, Forrest drunkly dances on a frozen lake and falls into the freezing water, dying of pneumonia a few weeks later. from wikipedia.org