I want Myth Busters to repeat Robert Mitchem flipping that cigarette out his window & into the car running beside of him.
My favorite part of this movie is where Gene Barry is telling Mitchum what all he can do to him, and Mitchum tells him "I recon that you can do all you say ........But you got to catch me first.." Kenny
i love thunder road i just wish there were more sceens with the 57 ford in it AND HATE 2LANE there was another movie out also black and white and was about moon runners and they mainly ran 57 fords and chevys in this movie the bad guys kept putting huge window glass accross the streets to make the moon runners think someone was coming at them headon in which they served to miss them and ran off the road does anyone remember this movie? and its title?
Got my DVD copy off eBay, with shipping less than $10.00 and it is perfect. Also found an original full size theater poster on eBay last year, $100.00, also perfect. Love that '51 in the movie, lots of good info. on the car and the movie on the net.
Just watched it today on tv, the this network 4-2 here in seattle area. great movie, Keely Smith played a great part too.
It's great when a three year old thread comes back to life. 1960 We had an old Ford on a dirt road and tried to do that rollover. Wrecked the car on the first roll and stayed on it's roof. Hell, Mitchem did it without even breaking the windshield.......
I must have seen the movie a hundred times. It was a cult classic in the South, often paired with Thunder in Carolina with Rory Calhoun as a Double Feature at Drive-in theaters across the South.
Don, my grandpa Highpockets was from Cherokee county and he was know to be in the untaxed alcohol business to help subsidize raising 6 kids, that was before I came along but my uncle gor grandpa to make him a still back in the early 1970's. I never got to sample any of my grandpa's shine but Brenda's grandmother Jessie seemed to always have a quart or two under the kitchen sink, I tried it and it knocked my socks off, she mixed it with her coffee, must have been some kind of preservative, she lived to be 99 years old. HRP
.............Great stories. Danny! My maternal Grandmother always made 5 or 6 fruitcakes each Fall, grew all of her own fruit and put them in cake tins wrapped in cheesecloth. Every week she would take the lids off of the tins and dribble a little moonshine over the cheesecloth and close them back up. Most she gave away, but always held one back for Family and served it at Christmas dinner. When she took the lid off you could smell that 'shine and the cake was so very moist (unlike the rocks you find in stores), but you would almost get a "buzz" just smelling the cake.
BTW, no one has mentioned the blooper in the poster. Luke is never seen with a revolver. He has a Colt 1911 .45 and a shotgun. Just sayin'. Lucas
............On the subject of bloopers.....In the scene where Mitchum rolls up on the cobblestone street to check out the Kogan facility in "Memphis", if you look closely, he drives past a plate glass window with Asheville Pharmacy on it!...Makes perfect sense that this happened as the entire movie was filmed in and around Asheville. I knew that street well as my first eye exam took place there in the office of a German opthalmologist named Dr. Weisenblott.
Yes, there are a couple of bloopers in the movie. For instance, the '57 that Lucas drives is a two door. But the the car they show him wrecking at the end of the movie is a four door. But it is still one of my all time favorite movies. Watch the movie when he crashes into the sub-station.
Lucas was driving the his 2-door when he flipped the cigarette at the bad guy dark 4-door pictured above, and when he crashed soon after.
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