Car Movies » Thunder Road http://carmovies.org Archive of tread burning car films Fri, 01 May 2009 20:58:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Thunder Road http://carmovies.org/thunder-road.html http://carmovies.org/thunder-road.html#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:55:58 +0000 Hot Rod http://carmovies.org/?p=124 Thunder Road benefits from a strong story, and an honest appreciation of the redneck code of honor that allows a democratic vote on how the community will break the law and defy outside criminal elements no matter what the cost.
the strong family relationships among the moonshiners are revealed in authentic dialogue. The director never lets the strong and stoic characters become caricatures of themselves. They are slow spoken,and easy with long silence, like the real life people the story depicts. Anyone who has met mountsin folk sees it immediately.

The car chases are not drawn out for effect, they are nasty, brutish fights to the death and Mitchum’s character shows that he knows he is not immune. He chooses to fight and die with honor rather than try and hide from the troubles he faces.

I hear a remake is in the works, spearheaded by James Mitchum. Well done it would be a fine tribute to his father’s work and a way to show a new generation the ethos and values that redneck culture gives to America for good and bad.

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