Part of Nashville: A City On Film
“Now you stay here and do your time…and meet me in Mexico.”
“And all I’ve got to do is look up your kinfolk in Antioch?”
When a prison work-detail escape goes south on the shores of Old Hickory Lake, Snake (Faron Young) hits the road with a tip from his late cellmate Culley about a hidden stash. Racing toward Antioch, Snake finds refuge with the Bolton family — Papa Rev. Bolton (Tex Ritter), cousins Ceephus (Johnny Russell), young Rita, and the seductive Nadine (Rachel Romen) — who are fighting to keep their tobacco farm and community alive. But with the mob (Ron Ormond, Ralph Emery) closing in fast, Snake’s arrival puts everyone in the crosshairs. One of the bigger drive-in hits from Nashville’s prolific exploitationers, the Ormond Organization, the film is home-spun auteurism — a cabinet of country music curiosities and local filmmaking history.
“This 1966 melodrama lured rural audiences with a siren song of guns, gals, gags, gore and good country music.” —Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene (Aug 10, 2015)
“The Ormond legacy is an incredible concoction that mixes vaudeville moxie with low-budget schlock.” —Ken Beck, The Tennessean