Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a 1958 American drama–crime film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring Robert Mitchum, who also wrote the story. The supporting cast features Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, Keely Smith, James Mitchum, Sandra Knight, and Peter Breck. The film's plot concerns running bootleg moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee in the late 1950s. Thunder Road became a cult film and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some southeastern states through the 1970s and 1980s.
Plot
Lucas Doolin (Robert Mitchum) works in the family moonshine business, running liquor his father distills to clandestine distribution points throughout the South in his hot rod. However, Lucas has more problems than evading government "revenuers".
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author | James Atlee Phillips |
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contentLocation | Appalachian Mountains |
director | Arthur Ripley |
editor | Harry Marker |
genre | crime drama |
keywords | bloodshed blow out code of honor dale van sickel death wish force hot rod kill korean war mitchell ryan nightclub singer run set up state police treasury agent without a word |
musicBy | Jack Marshall |
productionCompany | DRM Productions |
publisher | United Artists |
recordedAt | North Carolina |
theme | chase |