Thunder Road (1958 film)

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Thunder Road
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Arthur Ripley
Screenplay by	James Atlee Phillips Walter Wise
Story by	Robert Mitchum
Starring	Robert Mitchum Gene Barry Keely Smith James Mitchum
Cinematography	David Ettenson Alan Stensvold
Edited by	Harry Marker
Music by	Jack Marshall
Production company	DRM Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	May 10, 1958 (1958-05-10) (US)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1 million[1]

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 Carolina, and Tennessee in the late 1950s. Thunder Road became a cult film and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some southeastern states through the 1970s and 1980s.