Thunder Road
1h 32m
Running Time
Plot.
A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison.
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Mitchum
Lucas Doolin
Gene Barry
Troy Barrett
Jacques Aubuchon
Carl Kogan
Keely Smith
Francie Wymore
Trevor Bardette
Vernon Doolin
Sandra Knight
Roxanna Ledbetter
James Mitchum
Robin Doolin
Peter Breck
Stacey Gouge
Charles Elledge
Jimmy
Jerry Hardin
Niles Penland
Arthur Ripley
Director
James Atlee Phillips
Writer
Walter Wise
Writer
Jack Marshall
Composer
David Ettenson
Cinematographer
Alan Stensvold
Cinematographer
Details.
StatusEnded
Running Time1h 32m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsNorth Carolina, United States
Genres
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Thunder Road is a 1958 American drama–crime film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring Robert Mitchum, who also wrote the story. The supporting cast features Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, Keely Smith, James Mitchum, Sandra Knight, and Peter Breck. The film's plot concerns running bootleg moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee in the late 1950s. Thunder Road became a cult film and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some southeastern states through the 1970s and 1980s.