''This Stuff'll Kill Ya!'' is a 1971 American film directed by

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and starring

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and Jeffrey Allen. It features Holt's final film appearance.

Plot

A con artist acts as a preacher to run his moonshine distillery in a small town in the

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and clashes with a number of locals and a federal agent bent on shutting his operation down.

Production

''This Stuff'll Kill Ya!'' was filmed in Checotah and

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Critical reception

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'' described the film as "long, dull and boring" with "stilted dialogue and static direction."; critic Jeffrey Kauffman, as an "oddball entry," "patently silly," and "Uneven at best and hilariously inept at worst (in the Lewis tradition)."; and ''

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'', as "unyielding creepiness,"; the same review stating that " also doesn't help that Allen's performance - which permeates almost every frame - is grating to no end, while the story absentmindedly stumbles around with no clear focus."

References

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* 1971 films 1971 crime drama films American crime drama films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis 1970s American films English-language crime drama films {{1970s-US-film-stub

Plot

Production

Critical reception

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