Thunder Road

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Summary: Couldn't Get Into It!
Review: (...). This movie plods along at a snail's pace. I haven't been able to watch "Thunder Road" in one sitting EVER, simply because it is so boring. I love Robert Mitchum and the movie looks cool with the 1950s cars and the black & white photography. I really, really wanted to like this film. I even bought the dvd to replace a taped version I had, hoping that a superior picture would do the trick....it didn't. Apart from the car chases, it just drags. No kidding. This movie has a cult following (each to their own) but in my humble opinion, it's a complete yawner. (...) Sorry "Mitch."

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Summary: 3.5, maybe...
Review: A slow-moving crime melodrama about a family of old-fashioned, backwoods moonshiners being muscled out by big city gangsters. Robert Mitchum, in sort of a James Dean turn, sleepy-eyes his way through with his usual mix of menace and charm; Edie Adams plays his long-suffering nightclub-singer girlfriend, and gets a few vocal numbers in, too. (Adam's fans will definitely want to check this film out... those who don't quite get her charms will probably find her irritating, or simply adequate in her role.) The most interesting piece of casting, however is Mitchum's son (!) who looks just like him, and plays his younger brother, a weird but brilliant choice. This film was okay, but not great.

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Summary: 3.5, maybe...
Review: A slow-moving crime melodrama about a family of old-fashioned, backwoods moonshiners being muscled out by big city gangsters. Robert Mitchum, in sort of a James Dean turn, sleepy-eyes his way through with his usual mix of menace and charm; Edie Adams plays his long-suffering nightclub-singer girlfriend, and gets a few vocal numbers in, too. (Adam's fans will definitely want to check this film out... those who don't quite get her charms will probably find her irritating, or simply adequate in her role.) The most interesting piece of casting, however is Mitchum's son (!) who looks just like him, and plays his younger brother, a weird but brilliant choice. This film was okay, but not great.

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Summary: Docked one star for cutting this movie to pieces!
Review: But like most movies it only tells part of a very interesting story. If you like the movie, you should also read the book "Return to Thunder Road"

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Summary: Factual and Accurate - Good Film
Review: But like most movies it only tells part of a very interesting story. If you like the movie, you should also read the book "Return to Thunder Road"

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Summary: ThunderRoad
Review: I enjoy watching the video over and over. Maybe because it takes me back to the days of the 57 Ford Thunderbird. Only thing I didn't like was it being black and white. I guess color has spoiled us. Still a good movie now as it was then.

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Summary: A special influence.
Review: I first saw this film in the UK when I was twelve years old. Beside the glamour of fast cars there was something very special for me in the film. There was a quality in the writing/the charactors that reinforced a feeling I had that this sort of quality was what I had to aim for in my intention to become a writer. OK, I made it. I've had twelve novels published, usa and uk, but I would never have got started without as sharp a prod. Great film, and from a writer now becoming a literary agent and a screenplay writer, thanks to Mitcham and co. A really great big thanks.

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Summary: thunder road
Review: i love the movie very i show my mom she want buy her one i did

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Summary: Moonrunners Is Better
Review: I Love This Movie So Much but in my opinion the sort of remake ala Thunder Road for the next generation is better entitled Moonrunners its the film The Dukes Of Hazzard was based on and it stars Jim Mitchum Robert Mitchuns son anyway you'll love both movie full of good old crash'em up chases and real good acting so check'em out you won't be dissapointed

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Summary: not too bad for an old 50's flick
Review: I thought "Thunder Road" was a great flick. It reminded me a lot of the old Jimmy Dean movies, only Mitchum wasn't quite as cool.