Thunder Road

About Thunder Road

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of…

Thunder Road is a 1958 crime thriller film directed by Arthur Ripley. Released in May 1958, it runs 92 minutes.

Its themes are on the run, war veteran, car mechanic, and nightclub singer.

Robert Mitchum takes the lead as Lucas Doolin, Gene Barry as Troy Barrett, Jacques Aubuchon as Carl Kogan, and Keely Smith as Francie Wymore. The screenplay is by James Atlee Phillips and Walter Wise. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and ScreenPix Amazon Channel in the United States.

Psycho, Some Like It Hot, and Breathless make useful companions to Thunder Road, all filed under black and white. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 62 votes and it carries a NR rating.