Moonrunners (1975) The movie that lead to The Dukes of Hazzard Moonrunners is a 1975 action comedy film starring James Mitchum, about a Southern family that runs bootleg liquor. Mitchum had co-starred with his father, Robert Mitchum, in the similar drive-in favorite Thunder Road eighteen years earlier, which also focused upon moonshine-running bootleggers using fast cars to elude federal agents. Moonrunners, a B movie, was filmed in 1973 and awaited release for over a year. Its soundtrack reflec