Thunder Road (film)

Thunder Road is a black and white 1958 dramacrime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the late 1950s. It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film, cowrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself. He also cowrote with Don Raye the theme song, The Ballad of Thunder Road.

Korean War veteran Lucas Doolin Robert Mitchum works in the family moonshine business delivering the illegal liquor his father distills to clandestine distribution points throughout the south in his soupedup hot rod. However, Lucas has more problems than evading the U.S. Treasury agents revenooers, led by determined newcomer Troy Barrett Gene Barry. Lucas is concerned that his younger brother Robin James Mitchum, who is also his mechanic, will be tempted into following in his footsteps and becoming a moonshine runner.A wellfunded outside gangster, Carl Kogan Jacques Aubuchon, tries to gain control of the independent local moonshine producers and their distribution points, and is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way. The stakes rise when an attempt by Kogan to kill Lucas results in the death of a government agent as well as another moonshine driver. ........

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