EDITOR’S NOTE: Black Oak Conspiracy was on the CBS Late Movie on June 3, 1981.
Hollywood stuntman Jingo Johnson (Jesse Vint, Pigs) comes home to see his mother before she dies. A mining company has taken over the family farm; his old girl Lucy (Karen Carlson, The Student Nurses) is dating one of the mining crew (Robert F. Lyons), and Sheriff Otis Grimes (Albert Salmi) has it in for him.
He learns from Nurse Beulah Barnes (Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Beast of the Yellow Night and, strangely, two seasons of SCTV) that the mining company also owns the hospital that his mother is in, amongst other farmers, and has been keeping them asleep with a concoction of narcotics. Even worse, the pills they gave her caused the disease that soon takes her life.
It turns out that the law is behind all of this — the title makes sense! — and they want Jingo to take the fall for several murders. Oh man, the 70s, a time when redneck — I say this in the kindest of ways, as taught by Joe Bob — movies played with conspiracy films!
This was directed by Bob Kelljan, who made Count Yorga, Vampire; The Return of Count Yorga; Scream Blacula Scream; and Flesh of My Flesh. Hugh Smith (Moonshine County Express, The Glove, Night Creature) and Vint wrote it, and they clashed with Kelljan, feeling he was the wrong director for the movie.
You can watch this on Tubi.
