| | Thunder Road DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Action DVDs, Dramas Movies, Action/Adventure Videos, Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Organized Crime, Corruption | | Starring | Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Keely Smith, Jim Mitchum, Mitchell Ryan, Trevor Bardette, Jerry Hardin, Peter Breck, James Phillips, Jacques Aubuchon, Betsy Holt, Peter Hornsby, Sandra Knight, Francis Koon, Randy Sparks | | Director | Arthur Ripley | | Composer | Jack Marshall | | Director of Photography | Alan Stensvold, David Ettinson | | Editor | Harry Marker | | Producer | Robert Mitchum | | Screenwriter | Walter Wise | | Story | Robert Mitchum |
92 minute feature film DVD starring Gene Barry, James Mitc hum, Robert Mitchum and Keely Smith. The members of Lucas Doolin's family have been Kentucky moonshiners for many generations. Lucas attempts to carry on the tradition by transporting the illegal whiskey to Southern markets. This becomes more and more difficult, because not only is U.S. Treasury Department agents cracking down on bootleggers, but a powerful racketeer now wants a corner on the market, and Lucas and his friends are in his way. Mitchum's real-life son plays his kid brother in this battle-and-chase crime drama of a Kentucky moonshiner, the Feds who oppose him, and the mobsters who try to take him over. In an atypical casting move, love interest is supplied in the person of chanteuse Keely Smith. Actor Robert Mitchum wrote, produced, and starred in this film.
DRM is his production company. He even wrote the theme song, "Whippoorwill."
Co-star Jim Mitchum is the son of Robert Mitchum. Thunder Road Reviews: "THUNDER ROAD stands as spiritual granddaddy to all those '60s and '70s road movies that take the endless American highway as existential parable....None of them ever made death-tripping this much fun."
-- Damien Love, Uncut
This is the only James Phillips video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Betsy Holt, Peter Hornsby, Francis Koon, Randy Sparks. Thunder Road | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.49) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1958 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  532  | | CD Universe Part number | 1168429 | | Catalog number | 908101 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 25, 2000 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 93 Minutes | | Movie Details | B&W; Digital Sound |
Thunder Road Movie Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Excellent Movie
This movie is an excellent story about moonshine running and the lifestyle that goes with it. If you like that kind of action movie and the moonshine legacy, this movie is for you.
Submitted by a reviewer (Indiana) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No one of the all time great about the 1940 ==1950
right on, this really did happen, i remember some of it myself, and sure hear my dad talk about it when he was growing up. we all grow up In Kentucky.i have saw this movie at least 5-7 times never get tired of watching it.
Submitted by James (cincinnati ohio)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No True Classic
One of my all time favorites. On a par with Sands Of Iwo Jima, 12 O'Clock High and many other ground breakers.
Mitchum makes the character absolutely believeable. I hrew up in South Georgia and knew many characters in real life that could have been walk ons in this movie.
Submitted by Butch (Thomaston, Georgia)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Mitchum as a true rebel
A true American classic. Has it all, action, romance,family bonding, moral ending. Mitchum's brooding nature plays perfect for the part.
Submitted by stmay (Pittsburgh, PA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No A YOUNG MANS DAYS
THIS MOVIE IS JUST GREAT. I CAME FROM THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY. IT DID HAPPEN THIS WAY .I WAS A YOUNG MAN AND SAW A LOT OF THIS GOING ON. TO SEE IT ON THE BIG SCREEN IS TRULEY THE WAY IT WAS. THANKS FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS. E. P. S. HARLEN FY.
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