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Aug 27, 2012 · The real story behind the new movie 'Lawless.' ... Shia LaBeouf plays Jack Bondurant in Lawless (in theaters Aug. 29); the real Jack, circa 1935. ... Matt Bondurant's most recent novel is The ...
- Matt Bondurant
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- Biography
- Great Moonshine Conspiracy
- Later life
Andrew Jackson "Jack" Bondurant (8 April 1910-6 November 2000) was an American Prohibition-era gangster and one of the three Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia.
Andrew Jackson Bondurant was born in Franklin County, Virginia on 8 April 1910, the son of Granville Thomas Bondurant and Malissa Elizabeth Barbour and the younger brother of Howard and Forrest. He and his brothers became moonshiners during Prohibition, with Jack serving as their driver and mostly being kept out of the business because of his perce...
Jack went on to become business partners with Floyd, and he and Cricket made several profitable cross-county liquor runs. Bondurant soon bought himself a new car and bought a dress for Bertha, and he took her on a trip to visit his family's still, where they had their first kiss. However, he was tailed by US Marshal Charley Rakes, his brother Forre...
The repeal of Prohibition in 1930 ended the "Great Moonshine Conspiracy", and the Bondurant brothers returned to working legitimate jobs. Jack married Bertha in 1933 and had three sons and two daughters with her, and he went on to run his father's farm, raise cattle, and grow tobacco. Jack outlived both of his brothers, who died in the 1960s, and J...
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Lawless. (film) Lawless is a 2012 American crime drama film directed by John Hillcoat. The screenplay, by Australian singer-screenwriter Nick Cave, is based on Matt Bondurant 's historical novel The Wettest County in the World (2008). The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, and Guy ...
- $54.4 million
- Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
- $26 million
ISBN. 1-4165-6139-0 (hardback edition) The Wettest County in the World is a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant, an American writer who features his grandfather Jack and grand-uncles Forrest and Howard as the main characters in the novel. The book tells of the trio during the Depression and Prohibition in rural Virginia, who made a living ...
- 320 pp (hardback edition)
- Matt Bondurant
- October 14, 2008
- Scribner
Aug 30, 2012 · The narrator in the movie Lawless is Jack Bondurant, the youngest of three brothers who ran a legendary illegal whiskey operation in Franklin County, Virginia 80 years ago. From 1920 to 1933 ...
Bondurant was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. He graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in English from James Madison University, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Bondurant went on to earn a PhD in English at Florida State University in 2003. Bondurant's latest novel Oleander City was released in 2022.
The movie “Lawless” was released in August 2012. It tells the story of the Bondurant Boys (Howard, Forrest, and Jack) of Franklin County VA who were involved with moonshining during Prohibition. The movie is the real life story of Jack Bondurant as told by his grandson, Matt Bondurant in his book “The Wettest County in the World”.
