Robert Mitchum
Lucas Doolin
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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 ...
- $1 million
- Jack Marshall
- DRM Productions
Thunder Road: Directed by Arthur Ripley. With Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, Keely Smith. A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business.
- (4.4K)
- Arthur Ripley
- Approved
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
"The Ballad of Thunder Road" is a song performed and co-written by actor Robert Mitchum in 1958, with music by composer Jack Marshall. It was the theme song of the movie Thunder Road . [2] The song made the Billboard Hot 100 twice, in 1958 and 1962, and while it never peaked higher than number 62, it racked up 21 total weeks in the chart.
- "My Honey's Lovin' Arms"
- May 1958
- 1958
- Country
Thunder Road, American crime-drama film, released in 1958, that is a cult classic notable for its numerous car chases and Robert Mitchum ’s performance. Mitchum played a Korean War veteran who returns to the Tennessee hills to run his family’s moonshine business. Soon, however, he becomes embroiled in a battle with gangsters and federal agents.
Watch Thunder Road with a subscription on Prime Video. Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father ...
