Bruce springsteen thunder road hot rod movie poster mashup art print. Hd ganzer film thunder road 2018 stream deutsch du. Korean war veteran lucas doolin mitchum runs moonshine across the mountain back roads, dodging the law and the lawless alike. Under pressure from both outoftown gangster kogan jacques aubuchon, who wants a piece of the local action, and treasury agent barrett gene barry. Watch thunder road online stream full movie directv.
On the first of april, nineteen fiftyfour a federal man sent word he d better make his run no more he said two. Night after night, he loads up the trunk of his 1950 ford with moonshine and goes racing down the twisty roads of rural kentucky. With robert mitchum, gene barry, jacques aubuchon, keely smith. Check out our thunder road selection for the very best in unique or custom.
Thunder road 1958 thunder road stars robert mitchum as a moonrunner, one of the wild and reckless men who transport illegal whiskey from its source to its point of distribution. Thunder road soundtrack from 1958, composed by jack marshall. Thunder road is one of the first, and finest, automotive. Pretty exciting, morally ambiguous and romantically tittilating. Sometimes into ashville, sometimes memphis town the revenoors chased him but they couldnt run him down. Discussion in the hokey ass message board started by allah, oct 2. Let me tell the story, i can tell it all about the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol his daddy made the whiskey, son, he drove the load when his engine roared, they called the highway thunder road. Whippoorwill, jack odiamonds, johnny diamond, kilometerstein 375.
Thunder road 1958 thunderbirds thunderbirds commentary thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 thunderpants. When getting busy with a chick who has nipple rings and a metal connector, you hook up an electrical current such as a battery to electrify the metal pieces than titty fuck her. Carl kogans henchmen, including lucky peter hornsby, use remington model 31 shotguns to try and shoot luke doolins car off the road. Thunder road is a black and white 1958 dramacrime film directed by arthur ripley and starring robert mitchum, who also produced the film and cowrote the.
And hed go by like they were standing still on thunder road. Read the thunder road movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on movies. This is very significant since the movie was filmed in 1957 seven years before the introduction of the 1964 pontiac gto, which officially started the muscle car craze. The ballad of thunder road, a 1957 song cowritten and performed by robert mitchum for the 1958 film thunder road song, a 1975 song by bruce springsteen thunder road, a 1980s canadian band led by david thompson thunder road, a 2001 song by judas priest from point of entry. After the giant wreaks havoc on the patch and changes teds life forever, he moves to winnipeg for a fresh start.
Thunder road was filmed here in asheville, where he does a 180, was close to the silver dollar cafe, the overpass. Thunder road the first muscle car movie old car memories. He has to battle bigcity gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison. Remington model 31 12 gauge a henchman aims at lukes ford. A veteran comes home from the korean war to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. Death to my hometown sounds like an irish rebel song, but its all about what happened four years ago. Thunder road soundtrack cd details and availability. Thunder road is widely considered the best movie about moonshine bootleggers, and its climatic car chase is one of the finest ever captured on film. Its not as dramatic as perhaps the one for out of the past 1947 which starts with a plane crash, but its still full of juicy bits of. Total number of members who have this title in their. Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at movies. Robert mitchums 1958 film thunder road created a bigger footprint on pop culture consciousness than its box office success suggests.
Clash of the titans sequel wrath of the titans was also produced by the company which released in 2012. The legendary robert mitchum roars down the hottest highway on earth in the actionpacked thunder road, a cult classic that moves like white lightning. Fine lowbudget action drama that pits the moralistic urban view of hillbillies against the philosophy of people from the mountain in this case of irish ancestry who live by simple. Watch the video for ballad of thunder road from robert mitchums robert mitchum sings for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists.
And there was thunder, thunder over thunder road thunder was his engine, and white lightning was his load there was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil s thirst the law they swore theyd get him, but the devil got him first. However this is were thunder road really begins to shine. With government agents and gangsters closing in on the operation, it seems the county may run drybut the untamed. Met robert mitchum, gene barry en jacques aubuchon. Soon, however, he becomes embroiled in a battle with gangsters and federal agents. Released by bear family in 2015 containing music from thunder road 1958. Thunder road 1958 click here to download subtitles file for the movie thunder road 1958. Thunder road has been producing films since 2006, which included 2006s firewall and we are marshall, 2009s brooklyns finest, 2010s clash of the titans and the town. Certainly, in the last quarter of the 20th century the name thunder road was associated with bruce springsteen, who appropriated the title for his 1975 epic, but the bootlegger saga was popular in the south for years, playing driveins and midnight movies into.
Todays billiondollar whiskey war a father comes home to tennessee from the police action in korea to take over operation of the family moonshine making operation, but runs afoul of some gangsters who want in on the action. Thunderroad classics whitfield, florida automotive. Thunder road tells the story of ted, who was touched by the nine worlds when he was exposed to the fire giant surtur during an explosion while working the oil sands in alberta. More savage than the tommygun massacre of the roaring twenties. Thunder road 1958 has one of the most interesting backstories of all the films robert mitchum made in his long career as an actor. The company also produced the three installments of the expendables series.
Staring robert mitchum, sandra knight, jim mitchum and trevor bardette. Thunder road internet movie firearms database guns in. Thunder road is something of a disappointment, but one thats not without interest. I want to give people a sense that this is something thats happened over and over and over again. Cast and crew credits for thunder road, 1958, directed by arthur ripley, with robert mitchum, gene barry, jacques aubochon, at turner classic movies.
Thunder road, american crimedrama film, released in 1958, that is a cult classic notable for its numerous car chases and robert mitchums performance mitchum played a korean war veteran who returns to the tennessee hills to run his familys moonshine business. Thunder road 2001 unrepentant tennessee moonshine runner luke doolin robert mitchum makes dangerous highspeed deliveries for his liquorproducing father, vernon trevor bardette, but wont. Thunder road, american crimedrama film, released in 1958, that is a cult classic notable for its numerous car chases and robert mitchums performance. Robert mitchum and sandra knight in thunder road 1958. Practically creating a whole genre and with it laying the groundwork for burt reynolds career, it stars robert mitchum as a moonshine runner facing the wrath of both the revenuers and a crime syndicate trying to muscle in on the good ole boys trade. Misdaad thriller film geregisseerd door arthur ripley. Robert mitchum and his son james on the set of thunder road, 1958. Robert mitchum with son james mitchum in thunder road 1958 golden age of hollywood, hollywood. Sandra knight, robert mitchum, thunder road, 1958 cc75bc from alamys library of millions of high resolution stock. If you like the excellent burt reynolds good o boy shine running movie white lightning you must see thunder road. It was based on the classic 1957 robert mitchum film, thunder road. Thunder road continued to generate annual five and sixfigure ticket sales from driveins in the border and southern states for 25 years after its original release, a factor that caused united artists and its successor organizations to purposefully delay its release on home video until the end of the 1980s. A veteran comes home from the korean war to the mountains and. Doolin is forced to buy a new runner car which is a 1957 ford fairlane.
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