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एक वयोवृद्ध कोरियाई युद्ध से पहाड़ों पर घर आता है और पारिवारिक चांदनी व्यवसाय को संभालता है।एक वयोवृद्ध कोरियाई युद्ध से पहाड़ों पर घर आता है और पारिवारिक चांदनी व्यवसाय को संभालता है।एक वयोवृद्ध कोरियाई युद्ध से पहाड़ों पर घर आता है और पारिवारिक चांदनी व्यवसाय को संभालता है।
- निर्देशक
- लेखक
- स्टार
Peter Breck
- Stacey Gouge
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Charles Elledge
- Jimmy
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Jerry Hardin
- Niles Penland
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Charles Hendrix
- Townsman
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Betsy Holt
- Mary Barrett
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Peter Hornsby
- Lucky - Kogan's Henchman
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Francis Koon
- Sarah Doolin
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Christopher Mitchum
- Washboard Player
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Russell Offhaus
- Noisy Customer
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Jack Perry
- Kogan Henchman Killed in Car Crash
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
Robert Porterfield
- Preacher
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
फ़ीचर्ड समीक्षाएं
From the opening scene of a 1950 Ford coupe racing along a mountain road to the closing crash of a 1957 Ford - yes that must have been the product placement company, along with the tobacco industry, but the cops get around in great 1957 Chevy Bel Airs - this movie has plenty of involving drama centred around a guy who acts as a transporter for moonshiners. The female characters and the acting are weak but handsome Robert Mitchum keeps it all together in between the action sequences. Technically it ain't too bad, but there are obvious continuity problems. One scene between the younger brother and a law enforcer starts out and ends on location but there are a couple of minutes of dialog that are obviously filmed in the studio - even in 1957 this surely could have been done a little better.
Decent if unremarkable drama of a moonshiner and the feds who are trying to shut him down. A real study in star power with Robert Mitchum commanding the screen with seemingly little effort. An interesting contrast can be made between him and his son James, making his screen debut here, their appearance is so similar that you would think their performances would have a hint of the same similarity. The senior Mitchum owns the screen with an easy charm and magnetism while the young Mitchum is stiff with a vacant stare. Keely Smith contributes a couple of terrific numbers sung in her unique style but she also comes across as uncomfortable and mechanical in any scene which doesn't require her to sing. A huge drive-in hit in its day, it's easy to see why since it has a very laid back, low budget feel.
Arthur Ripley directs this cult classic crime/Noir. War vet Robert Mitchum returns home to ramrod the family moonshine business. This hard headed bootlegger takes on the Feds and the Mob while burning the roads in his whiskey laden hot rods. If that is not enough, he must keep his young brother(James Mitchum)from moving up from mechanic to driver in the family business and then there is the romancing of a Memphis chanteuse(Keely Smith). Also in the cast are Gene Barry, Sandra Knight and Jacques Aubuchon. Bob Mitchum produces, and takes partial writing credit plus writes songs for this evocative glimpse of southern culture. Mitchum also oversees his younger brother's film debut.
NOTE: It is said that Elvis Presley enjoyed this movie so much he memorized bad Bob's lines of the script.
NOTE: It is said that Elvis Presley enjoyed this movie so much he memorized bad Bob's lines of the script.
I was 14 when I first viewed "Thunder Road" at a local drive In in North Georgia. It was in June 1958 after the movie was released in May of that year. The movie was an immediate smash hit with viewers that night, many of whom were in the "whiskey" business and who had taken the night off to see the film. After the show the exit from the drive in was blackened by the burning rubber left by many of the patrons leaving the premises, several of whom owned "whiskey cars" of equal or greater horsepower than those in the film. Since that night I have seen the movie many times and it always brings back great memories of the era. 2007 will be the 50th anniversary of the filming of the movie and 2008 will be the anniversary of its release date. Wouldn't it be interesting if someone or some company put together a 50th Anniversary Thunder Road event like the recreation of the cars in the movie along with special appearances at regional car shows, complete with car magazine articles and perhaps even a road test of the vintage autos. The re-release of the DVD to include the out takes would also be popular. Who knows what MGM and NASCAR could do with a team effort? WHB
Whatever the film lacks, which is a lot, focus on the imagery -- duelling hotrods, a dangling cigarette, and country two-lanes, along with a precious load of illegal booze, family honor, and a good woman. This is movie myth-making at its near purest, so what else could a ducktailed Elvis- clone of the 50's have wanted. Girls may have swooned over treacle like "A Summer Place", but hot-rodders packed this drive-in classic bumper to bumper. Sure, it's badly produced ($50 budget, tops), badly acted (even Mitchum struggles with the hopeless Keely Smith), and features one of the worst canvas backdrops on record (the water-wheel scene). Still it has the King of Cool gunning down the asphalt (don't let the sleepy eyes fool you), pits rugged individualism against angry collectivism (organized crime and big govn't), and opens with a throbbing title tune (composed and sung by Mitchum) -- topped by a look and feel unlike the usual Hollywood contrivance. And who can forget those forlorn headbeams searching their way through an existential void. The imagery was compelling and caught the edgy mood of a drive-in crowd feeling their own way through a world of teenage angst. Few would grow into the mythic shoes of road-warrior, Luke Doolin, but a lot sure wanted to try. Which is why this primitive slice of small-screen black-and-white continues to resonate, even into the big-screen myth-making of souped-up starships, evil empires, and computerized magic.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाAll of the moonrunner cars in the film had been used by moonshiners in the Asheville, NC area, where the film was shot. The moonshiners sold the cars to the film company in order to buy newer and faster cars.
- गूफ़The movie was filmed in and around Asheville, NC. However, some of the scenes take place in Memphis, TN. In one of the Memphis scenes, Lucas Doolin pays a visit to the mob boss, Kogan, who is trying to horn in on his family's moonshine business. Doolin parks his car in front of a building with "Asheville Pharmacy" on the window.
- भाव
Lucas Doolin: [to a noisy customer, about the nightclub's singer] She's trying to make a living. If you want to bray, go find yourself a barnyard.
- कनेक्शनEdited into The Twilight Zone: The Prime Mover (1961)
- साउंडट्रैकBallad of Thunder Road
(uncredited)
(Theme song)
Composed by Robert Mitchum and Don Raye
Sung by Randy Sparks
टॉप पसंद
रेटिंग देने के लिए साइन-इन करें और वैयक्तिकृत सुझावों के लिए वॉचलिस्ट करें
- How long is Thunder Road?Alexa द्वारा संचालित
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- एशविल, उत्तरी कैरोलिना, यूएसए(Tunnel Road, city and chase scenes)
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