☆ ☆ ☆
Thunder Road (1958) – A. Ripley
Robert
Mitchum plays up his “bad boy” charm as a “transporter” running illegal
moonshine across the South in a souped up 1950 Ford. Mitchum also produced and co-wrote the title
song (not the Bruce Springsteen song, which only stole its title from this
film) and no doubt selected his son, James, to play his younger brother. You’ll need to set aside the unusual move
that sees Mitchum still playing a kid at 40 but that’s probably not all that
requires suspension of disbelief here.
Yet the action sequences, with the Feds and some crooked mobsters
chasing Mitchum, feel authentic and so too do some of the Southern locations
(filmed in and around Asheville, North Carolina). I hear this is a “cult classic” and I don’t
think it warrants that status but it’s not bad.
If only the rest of the acting was on Mitchum (Senior)’s level.
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