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30 mins  The True Story of An American Robin Hood!
Widely hailed as the American Robin Hood and The Jesse James of the Mountains, ‘Major’ Lewis Redmond was the most famous outlaw in the United States, outshining contemporaries Billy-the Kid and Jesse James.
Born to a poor farming family, he built and managed a vast bootleg network that ranged through three states, all the while fighting and eluding revenuers and marshals. He was known to use his profits to help poor people pay their taxes and save their lands, earning him the folk hero status of an American Robin Hood.
In The Outlaw Lewis Redmond, storytellers, folklorists, historians and descendents recover his memory and seek the real Redmond within the vagaries of the historical record, granting a privileged view into a formative era of American history.
A Neal Hutcheson film for Sucker Punch Pictures.
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