Thunder Road details
| Format: | U DVD |
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| Starring: | Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith |
| Director: | Arthur Ripley |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure, Thriller - Crime |
| Studio: | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Thunder Road |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 29 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 04 Oct 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
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If you want to bray, go find yourself a barnyard.
By ChesterDent (121 reviews) from London , 01 Nov 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
A personal project for Mitchum who wrote, produced, starred and penned the main song for this hillbilly, booze running road film. He puts in a brilliant, typically effortless performance as the aloof main character while the rest of the cast appear awkward and stiff and the pace is static and rather dull. Mitchum is one of the best ever American actors and, although this is far from his best work, it is a film which contains his personal vision of life: the alienated outsider, a strong belief in individualism, liquor and a fatalistic perception of life, which makes it an interesting and important film for his fans- Was this review helpful to you?
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(6)Taken For a Ride
By Cato (703 reviews) from Lydbury North , 24 Nov 2009In which good ol' Bob Mitchum takes us for a ride on the whisky smuggling trail. His driving is a sort of measured craziness, e.g have you ever tried driving whilst looking over your shoulder? Well, Bob managed to do it for quite a long time and still keep a straight way forward on a bendy road. Mind you, the cars were fantastic, like old dinosaurs rampaging noisily through the hills full throttle. The plot was pretty ordinary them against us stuff, with a bit of lurve thrown in, written apparently by the man himself, but my he was a cool dude that Mitchum, and his son James was pretty good in this, his first film, plaing Robert's brother. The female cast though, was pretty poor.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not a great film
By a customer from Croydon , 08 Feb 2008Robert Mitchum is excellent a usual, but the film itself is pretty tedious and the performances wooden.- Was this review helpful to you?
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following my daddy up sorrowful mountain
By lloyd (47 reviews) from cardiff, wales , 30 May 2007a classic tale of moonshiners giving government agents the runaround across the southern states. mitchum stars in, wrote and produced this picture and it's all the better for it. he even wrote the songs and one of his sons stars in his first screen role as mitchum's younger brother - a role rumoured to be coverted by elvis, but colonel parker wouldn't let him do it. this is a great little low-budget picture, complete with old-fashioned car chases in front of a backscreen and mountain men running illegal stills and spitting before they talk. 'thunder road' made mitchum a hero to many young rebels in the carolinas. he wasn't trying to make high art or a major hollywood production, he was just trying to show it like it is. he even conned the government agencies into letting him research their files, but once they discovered he was playing a 'shine runner rather than a revenue agent, they cut off his access. thunder road has no pretensions, it's just a great film for its time, illustrating the loyalties of family over law and community over government. made me want to take up nascar. and fermenting illegal liquor.- Was this review helpful to you?
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If you want to bray, go find yourself a barnyard.
By ChesterDent (121 reviews) from London , 01 Nov 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
A personal project for Mitchum who wrote, produced, starred and penned the main song for this hillbilly, booze running road film. He puts in a brilliant, typically effortless performance as the aloof main character while the rest of the cast appear awkward and stiff and the pace is static and rather dull. Mitchum is one of the best ever American actors and, although this is far from his best work, it is a film which contains his personal vision of life: the alienated outsider, a strong belief in individualism, liquor and a fatalistic perception of life, which makes it an interesting and important film for his fans- Was this review helpful to you?
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A long and winding road...
By FrankF (3 reviews) from Macclesfield , 30 Jan 2006Bit of a dreary one this. Plenty of cool 50s cars, rumbling V8s and all that. But not a lot else. Bit of a vanity project for Bob Mitchum and it shows. You can pick up the themes echoed later in Copperhead Road and elsewhere, but unless you're a real Mitchum fan, give it a miss.- Was this review helpful to you?
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