Thunderbolt And Lightfoot on DVD (1974)

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Starring:	Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, Burton Gilliam, Jack Dodson
Director:	Michael Cimino
Studio:	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time:	110 mins
Certificate:
User collections:	Late show favourites - Still and Sugarloaf Cambridge, andrews favourite films
Genres:	Action/Adventure, Thriller
Languages:	English
Released:	21/07/2003

Brief synopsis of Thunderbolt And Lightfoot

Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in Michael Cimino's brilliant directorial debut. This well-written film, featuring strong performances, is about a complex caper in which Bridges plays a young drifter who teams up with an ex-con (Eastwood) and his former partners in crime to restage a difficult safecracking heist. Conveyed in a tone that mixes dramatic and comic elements, the film is a rich blend of engaging characters and action.

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Critics Reviews

Radio Times

This marvellous crime drama marked the directing debut of Michael Cimino, who later distinguished (or disgraced) himself with The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate. Clint Eastwood plays the crook who teams up with drifter Jeff Bridges, and, with George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis (father of Juliette) in pursuit, goes on a hapless quest for hidden loot. Eastwood takes a bit of a back seat, letting the other three walk away with the acting honours. Bridges is terrific (although a drag sequence seems to go on for ever), but it's the manic Lewis you will remember. The scenery is handsome and the roll call of technicians would later feature in some of Eastwood's own fine work as a director. If you can ignore its rather tasteless sense of humour, this movie is enormously enjoyable.

Time Out

This was Cimino's only preparation as director for the epic undertakings of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate, and is... Read more on www.timeout.com

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stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Violent melodrama reworking an ancient comedy situation; well made on its level.

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A customer from GLASGOW , 19/10/2005

As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet of misfits in their life of crime. Retired thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) and sweet drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) meet cute when Thunderbolt jumps into Lightfoot's stolen car to escape a gunman. The pair embarks on an oddball journey to get Thunderbolt's loot from an old robbery before his former associates, the sadistic Red (George Kennedy) and cretinous Goody (Geoffrey Lewis), get to it first, but all four are too late; the one-room schoolhouse hiding place has apparently vanished. So instead, the four play house and work legit jobs while they plot to rob the same place Thunderbolt and Red hit before. Although the plan goes awry, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot discover that they may still have succeeded-or so they think. As the easy-going mediator between the two, Eastwood's Thunderbolt was a move away from his tough cop-westerner image; his audience accepted this then-atypical performance enough to turn Thunderbolt and Lightfoot into a moderate hit. Bridges received his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, but Cimino turned down a subsequent deal with Eastwood, moving instead to his artistic peak with The Deer Hunter (1978) and career nadir with Heaven's Gate (1980).

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