White Lightning/Gator

White Lightning is a two fisted, four-wheeling action adventure in which Gator, while serving time in an Arkansas prison for making and transporting untaxed whisky, learns that his brother and another man have been murdered. Ruthless Sheriff J.C. Connors (Ned Beatty) is suspect of being behind the murders. Prison officials grant Gator—who has sworn vengeance against the killer—permission to go undercover and expose Connors as the corrupt lawman that he is. Armed with a suped-up Pontiac Trans Am and nerves of steel, Gator tears through a series of white-knuckle car chases and bone-crunching brawls to get the goods on Connors. But what the authorities don’t realize is that Gator plans to make the Sheriff pay for his crimes—with his life. Diane Ladd and Laura Dern (in her film debut) co-star in this thrilling action adventure.