Mose is a drunk good for nothing moonshiner. Mose and Liz are 16 mortgage payments behind. The sheriff knows he's making Mountain Dew (moonshine). The only men around for their daughters are worthless as gum on a boot heel! Liz springs to action. She invites the sheriff in and offers herself to him in return for the sheriff looking the other way on Mose’s moonshining. She sets up a rendezvous with the banker and lets him have his way with her and gets him to absolve all the past mortgage payments. She makes things right with Mose by drinking his Mountain Dew and peaking his interest in her again. All’s well that ends well.
The movie is one stereotypical scene after another. There is even a badly acted parody scene where three of the hillbilly boys whose truck is broken down think the city folk are stupid for paying good money to buy all the locoweed (marijuana) growing on their fences that only makes their cows sick. This is all typical Bethel Buckalew (Director) and Harry Novak (Producer). Actress Maxine Deville France makes a cameo appearance arriving at the farm in her Mercedes because she is lost on her way to Nashville. We need to celebrate these pioneers and the work they did in the sixties and seventies.
The producer here was Harry Novak and he dubbed the “Sultan of Sexploitation”. His films played in dimly lit adult theaters (grindhouses) and drive-ins all over the country. Novak was a veteran of the distribution end of the film industry at RKO Picture and worked in films in the army (very common among these sexploitation producers and directors to have military film correspondent background). He knew theatres and how to make a titillating posters. In 1964, Harry established his own production and distribution company. Harry was known for operating on extremely tight budgets and adhering to rapid production schedules. He would make a movie in a week and made sensational and lurid eye-catching posters that frequently promised a level of explicitness or shock that the films themselves never delivered but sold tickets. He was about "quantity over quality".
The real star of the movie, in my opinion, is Mose’s wife Liz played by Debbie Osborne. Debbie Osborne was a notable presence in several of Harry Novak's productions, becoming a familiar face within his world of low-budget exploitation films. Described as a "cute, bubbly, and enticing pixie-ish redhead actress", Osborne appeared in six films produced by Harry Novak. Osborne's specific persona appealed to the target audience of these films and contributed to her repeated casting in Novak's productions. I will leave you with Harry’s often-quoted maxim, "When I was a kid, my daddy told me, 'There's a buyer for everything.' And I lived to find out that he was right", and this perfectly encapsulates his pragmatic and market-driven philosophy.
