The Georgia Peaches

This unsold pilot for a possible TV series isn't exactly that bad, even if it's in the same vein of The Dukes of Hazzard and Smokey and the Bandit, but the three main leads are likable. Tanya Tucker and Terri Nunn are sisters who operate a auto garage in the rural south. Their best friend is Dusty Tyree (Dirk Benedict), a local moonshiner always making fools out of the local cops. However, they find themselves in hot water with local crime boss Vivian Stark (Sally Kirkland), who plants hot merchandise in their garage and take the fall for it. To avoid having their garage condemned and a lengthy prison sentence, the three go undercover with bumbling treasury agent Randolph Dukane (Lane Smith) to bust Stark's operation. The supporting cast is pretty solid for a TV movie: Noble Willingham as a wealthy playboy smitten with Nunn and Burton Gilliam and David Hayward as Stark's flunkies. There's enough car chase action to keep the viewer tuned in and Tucker performs a few songs, as well.

I remember this movie being filmed in the town I lived in back in 1980. I was in so love with Dirk Benedict and still vividly remember the day I spent on the set that day as a little girl taking in everything and every action.

The movie, sadly, was a complete disappointment. Dirk, Noble and Lane were the real actors. Everyone and everything else about the movie is very much forgettable.

I'll keep the memories and the photos from that day but I'd rather forget the movie.

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This is one of my old favorite movies of all time. , I have to buy a new tape of this movie, because I have almost worn it out. One of the reasons I like this movies is of cause that Tanya Tucker play in this movie. She also play in another great TV movie: "Amateur night at the dixie bar & grill. (1979)

In recent years, B movie producer Roger Corman has been making product for television networks like the SyFy channel, but not many people know that he had started making product for television several decades earlier. "The Georgia Peaches" was made for American television as a series pilot. Seeing it, it isn't hard to figure out why this wasn't picked up for a subsequent TV series. The movie has decent production values (it was shown in theaters overseas), and Dirk Benedict, Tanya Tucker, and Terri Nunn make appealing leads. But the majority of the movie is dull. There isn't that much action, and with it being made for TV there is no swearing, sex, or nudity on display (though the female leads don't appear to be wearing bras in some scenes.) Watching it, you'll wonder why this TV movie was resurrected for DVD when there are so many better made-for-TV movies out there that are languishing on shelves.

In the 1970s, hixpliotation was big. As long as there's good stars in it, I will watch it. I saw it one time on a Saturday night, and it brought back memories. "The Georgia Peaches" is a good time romp. Not quite like "The Dukes of Hazzard". But it was fun. You got Dirk Benedict, fresh out of, "Battlestar Galactica", country singer, Tanya Tucker, and others to boot. With the driving and shooting, what else do you have. You have two sisters and a stock car driver who is also a moonshine deliver, they are forced to catch bootleg cigarettes smugglers and get pardoned for the offenses of their own. It's a good movie, I don't care about the critics responding.

2 out of 5 stars.