Thunder Road

Introduction and comments following Thunder Road, 1958, with TCM's Dave Karger and guest Chris Isaak.

Tennessee backwoods gathering, popular Roxie (Sandra Knight) with Jed (Mitch Ryan), a moonshine runner somewhat less cool and romantic than Korean War vet Luke (Robert Mitchum, also the producer and co-story writer), who arrives, and whom we know she prefers, in Thunder Road, 1958.

Moonshine runner Luke (Robert Mitchum, who also produced) has just taken off for Memphis when he’s engaged, this time not by revenuers but by rivals looking to squeeze out independent operations, Arthur Ripley directing a big action sequence, in Thunder Road, 1958.

Luke (Robert Mitchum), dining with brother Robin (Mitchum's son James), who's knocked clean out of his chair by mother (Francis Koon), then off to visit bootlegger father (Trevor Bardette), early in Thunder Road, 1958.

Opening with a song co-written by star, screen-writer and producer Robert Mitchum, who rolls his car to escape the revenuers, from Thunder Road, 1958.

Bootlegger Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum, also the producer), hiding out from a rival liquor outfit, tells his brother Robin (Mitchum's son James, in his first movie) that he won't cooperate with the revenuers, in Thunder Road, 1958.

Into Memphis after a nearly getting caught, moonshine runner Luke Doolin (producer and co-writer Robert Mitchum) does business with Mack (un-credited actor), whose motives are not quite clear, and makes urgent calls, in Thunder Road, 1958.