This Stuff'll Kill Ya! (1971)

This Stuff’ll Kill Ya!: Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. With Jeffrey Allen, Tim Holt, Gloria King, Ray Sager. A redneck con artist sets himself up as a preacher in a small Deep South town to run his moonshine distillery and clashes with a number of locals and a federal agent bent on shutting his operation down.

“I was looking at the credits of the director Herschell Gordon Lewis and this film seems typical of the product he put out. I certainly hope some of his films attained the exalted level of mediocrity. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGhastly is all I can say, throw open the windows folks if you happen to air this one at home. The acting is grade school level the direction non-existent and it looks like it was shot with my fatheru0026#39;s old home movie camera.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe protagonist is Jim Jones like reverend Jeffrey Allen who has a church where moonshine is a sacrament. Some narrow minded townspeople and that scourge the Yankees inflicted on the south, revenuers want to put him out of business. Some dead bodies start turning up, but everybody is having one swinging time at services.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSadly enough this was the farewell film for Tim Holt who with the other actor playing one of those revenuers dressed as they were in those black suits looked either like Mormon missionaries or they worked for the same agency that employed Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Holt looks like heu0026#39;s passing a kidney stone.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film was shot in Oklahoma and Holt had settled there in his last years. What a sad come down for a man who did some very good B westerns for RKO back in the day and who also appeared in some truly classic films like Stagecoach, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, etc.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf youu0026#39;re a fan of Tim Holt and remember him from the classic studio era in Hollywood avoid This Stuffu0026#39;ll Kill You like the plague. All others do likewise.”