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| Thunder Road | |
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&sq=engine&lang=en&file=File:Thunder_road42.jpg) 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 |
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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.
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1958". Variety. 7 January 1959. p. 48. Please note figures are for US and Canada only and are domestic rentals accruing to distributors as opposed to theatre gross