The Outlaw Lewis Redmond - The True Story of an American Folk Hero (trailer)

The award-winning documentary THE OUTLAW LEWIS REDMOND has been released on DVD in 2010. DVD will include special features and commentary, and, available for the first time, the restored 72 minute film THE PRINCE OF DARK CORNERS (previously available only in 57 minute PBS edit).

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SYNOPSIS
In the 1880s, Lewis Redmond was the most famous wanted man in the United States, outshining contemporaries Billy-the Kid and Jesse James. He managed a vast bootleg network, fought revenuers and marshals, and used his profits to help poor people save their farms and feed their families, earning him the folk hero status of an American Robin Hood. In The Outlaw Lewis Redmond, storytellers, folklorists, historians and descendants recover this forgotten chapter of American history.

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Tags:

• Appalachia
• outlaw
• lewis
• redmond
• moonshine
• moonshiner
• bootleggers
• folk
• hero
• jesse
• james
• robin
• hood

[jhvenus2004]

Historical records tell us that Moonshiners, including Lewis Redmond, often evaded arrest and killed law officers. History also records that these criminals often got light sentences & presidential pardons. They were criminals, murderers, and their 'product' brought out the worst in the consumers. But Ameri-History labels them 'Folk heros'. I'm glad these stories are being told so the world can see how 'cordial' we R with outlaws........when they look like our own kin....when they're white.

[jws54]

My GrandMother used to tell me stories about her StepFather, my GreatGrandFather when he made alcohol and murdered. She has many a newspaper clippings about

such things. This would have been at the turn of the century and up to the 1920-30.

He was Scottish and maybe not that hard.Some say not.But she never liked him, and trailed his life in newspaper clippings and stories.

[fordroad]

The making and start of moonshine, thunder road and ledgends