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The Revenue Man and the Girl
UNITED STATES · 1911

The Revenue Man and the Girl

D.W. Griffith
forbidden romance moonshining law enforcement class conflict rural crime
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Synopsis

In the Kentucky backwoods, Dorothy West helps her moonshiner father take some jugs to his still; along the way, she meets dashing Edwin August. Ms. West and Mr. August are immediately attracted to each other -- but he is "The Revenue Man ", which means, of course, trouble for the moonshiners. After August begins arresting the bootleggers, citizens dependent on the alcohol trade take up arms agains

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