Was Cricket Pate a real person?

Cricket Pate (died 1931) was an associate of the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia during Prohibition.

Is Bob Bondurant related to Forrest Bondurant?

Pictured at his home in Amherst, Va., August 23, 2012. Bobby Bondurant remembers the last time his father was arrested for making moonshine. “Lawless,” in theaters today, is a fictional account of the moonshining business Jack ran with his two older brothers, Forrest and Howard, in Franklin County for roughly 20 years.

Who are the real Bondurant brothers?

The Bondurant Brothers (Howard, Forrest, and Jack aka the Bondurant Boys) were no different.

Who are the members of the Bondurant family?

Sitting at the table in the foreground are, from left, Carol Bondurant (wife of G.T. Bondurant), Jack Bondurant’s daughters, Emmie Lee Gagni and Betty Lou Mitchell, Mitchell’s husband Howard, and Jack Bondurant’s son, G.T. Bondurant. “I was born in 1939, and I just didn’t remember my dad (who is played by Shia LaBeouf) being that rough,” he said.

Who are the Bondurant brothers in Lawless?

Bondurant’s sister Betty Lou Mitchell of Snow Creek said she had a difficult time dealing with the violence and language. “The language in it was beyond what we had or have in the family,” she said. “I didn’t like the way they (the brothers) were portrayed at all. It made me feel bad.”

Who was the youngest son of Jack Bondurant?

G.T. Bondurant of Horsepasture in Henry County was torn in his reaction to the film. He is the youngest son of the late Jack Bondurant, one of three Franklin County moonshine-making brothers portrayed in the film, which is based on his nephew Matt Bondurant’s book “The Wettest County in the World.”

When did the movie The Bondurant brothers take place?

In the film, set in 1931 during Prohibition when moonshine was shipped out of the county to large cities, the Bondurant brothers stand up to a violent special agent from Chicago who demands a large take of their moonshine profits. Although G.T. Bondurant said overall the movie was “pretty good,” some of the violence could have been cut back.

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