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White Lightning
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- How long is White Lightning?
- White Lightning is 1 hr 41 min long.
- Who directed White Lightning?
- Joseph Sargent
- Who is Gator McKlusky in White Lightning?
- Burt Reynolds plays Gator McKlusky in the film.
- What is White Lightning about?
- Easygoing Arkansas good ol' boy Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) is serving his second federal prison sentence for running moonshine when he learns his straight-arrow college graduate brother and his girlfriend have been murdered. Eager to take down corrupt county sheriff J.C. Connors (Ned Beatty), whom he suspects is behind his brother's death, Gator agrees to a federal attorney's deal that releases him from prison to infiltrate Connors' underground booze-running business.