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Polk County Pot Plane: Directed by Jim West. With Don Watson, Bobby Watson, Paul Benefield, Randy Mewbourn. A criminal gang bust two of their incarcerated colleagues out of jail in order for them to take on a high profile drug smuggling operation.
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- Action, Crime
- Jim West
- 1977-08
Nov 2, 2021 · Classic Motion Pictures. 1K subscribers. Subscribed. 24. 1.2K views 2 years ago. A criminal gang bust two of their incarcerated colleagues out of jail in order for them to take on a high profile...
- 88 min
- 1541
- Classic Motion Pictures
Originally titled “Polk County Pot Plane” and based upon an odd true-crime story about Southerners who used a DC-4 to smuggle weed. Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema. See what’s playing
The crazy true story that became a TV movie? What is fact? What is Fiction?Based on the True Story of the Polk County Pot Plane. Narrated By Jack MurphyAll a...
- 7 min
- 1298
- History City
Considering all the facts behind the case of Polk County's infamous pot plane landing in the early days of August 1975, you can see it was a miracle they were.
Through extensive research and interviews, this publication tells two singularly fantastical tales of the American South: smuggling, aviation, and filmmaking converge in a 1975 smuggling...
Polk County Pot Plane. August 1975. Drug smugglers flying a Douglas DC-4 (N67038) landed at a 1000 foot airstrip which had been bulldozed out of the forest only hours beforehand. The DC-4, designed for runways of 3000 feet or longer, managed to stop in less than 500.
