Eastern North Carolina Film Festival June 13, 2015 for a screening of POPCORN SUTTON - A HELL OF A LIFE
Marvin 'Popcorn' Sutton rose from humble Appalachian roots to become a
famous American outlaw, moonshiner and folk hero. A Hell of a Life
offers a raw and privileged view of his life and illegal bootlegging
operation in exclusive footage never released before this film. Filmed
2000 - 2009 in North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. Featuring a
soundtrack by Joe Knowlton, Grifters and Shills, Patty Hurst Shifter,
Dana & Susan Robinson, and Henry Queen
"He couldn't go
to prison. His mind would just not accept it. ... So credit the
federal government for my husband being dead, I really do." --Pam Sutton
"Popcorn" was a dumbass who decided to make himself the poster child for moonshine. He was dead or in prison the moment that first video aired. The same thing has happened to EVERYONE who go's on camera while tweeking "the mans" nose , and yet the idiots keep posing for their 15 min. fame. I have seen "Popcorns video on PBS . If you haven't; It has the man preforming more that a dozen federal felony's ON CAMERA , and is filmed confessing to dozens more. You can't fix stupid, and Sutton was flat stupid from the moment he saw that camera. Sutton cut his own neck , nobody helped and nobody "set him up". He did this all to himself . ---Ray
Well 300000 guys with machine guns .15000 federal DA's, 9000 Federal Judges , The US Congress and The US supreme court disagreed; and have since G.Washington sent the federal army to western Pa. in the 1790's. He picked a fight that, right or wrong , he had to know he'd lose the very instant that movie aired. "Inherent right" or no; the federals have controlled whisky for 225 years. Hell my family made untaxed corn whisky for hundreds of years in Kentucky and MANY of them have gone to the "pen'tentury" for bootlegging. My family has had members making "untaxed" whisky since the 1750s at least, and some probably still do. I'm bettin' that the ones doing it know that to stick their heads up like Sutton did would get them the same treatment. I stand by my comment , he was at best foolish and at worst stupid, and he brought down trouble on himself.---Ray
The good news is he left a legacy for his family to profit from and I hear they are going to start distilling his likker. http://popcornsutton.com/?age-verified=ac26dce3f4
"Popcorn" was a dumbass who decided to make himself the poster child for moonshine. He was dead or in prison the moment that first video aired. The same thing has happened to EVERYONE who go's on camera while tweeking "the mans" nose , and yet the idiots keep posing for their 15 min. fame. I have seen "Popcorns video on PBS . If you haven't; It has the man preforming more that a dozen federal felony's ON CAMERA , and is filmed confessing to dozens more. You can't fix stupid, and Sutton was flat stupid from the moment he saw that camera. Sutton cut his own neck , nobody helped and nobody "set him up". He did this all to himself . ---Ray
ReplyDeleteHis defense was it was an inherent right passed down through the generations which I agree with.
DeleteWell 300000 guys with machine guns .15000 federal DA's, 9000 Federal Judges , The US Congress and The US supreme court disagreed; and have since G.Washington sent the federal army to western Pa. in the 1790's. He picked a fight that, right or wrong , he had to know he'd lose the very instant that movie aired. "Inherent right" or no; the federals have controlled whisky for 225 years. Hell my family made untaxed corn whisky for hundreds of years in Kentucky and MANY of them have gone to the "pen'tentury" for bootlegging. My family has had members making "untaxed" whisky since the 1750s at least, and some probably still do. I'm bettin' that the ones doing it know that to stick their heads up like Sutton did would get them the same treatment. I stand by my comment , he was at best foolish and at worst stupid, and he brought down trouble on himself.---Ray
DeleteYes, the problem is the government and that doesn't mean it's right.
Delete''All we ask is to be left alone."
Looked at the pre made tombstone. I didn't know Wirecutter was a relation. :)
ReplyDeleteFla
Ha! :)
DeleteThe good news is he left a legacy for his family to profit from and I hear they are going to start distilling his likker. http://popcornsutton.com/?age-verified=ac26dce3f4
ReplyDeleteGood deal. Thanks.
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