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Thunder Road (film)

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Thunder Road is a black and white 1958 drama–crime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the late 1950s. [1]

45 relations: Arthur Ripley, Asheville, North Carolina, Bruce Springsteen, Capitol Records, Carey Loftin, Colonel Tom Parker, Crime film, Cult following, Dale Van Sickel, Don Raye, Drama (film and television), Drive-in theater, Elvis Presley, Gene Barry, Harry Marker, Hot rod, Jack Marshall (composer), Jacques Aubuchon, James Agee, James Mitchum, Keely Smith, Kentucky, Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tennessee, Korean War, Lake Lure, North Carolina, List of American films of 1958, Los Angeles, Metro Pulse, Mitchell Ryan, Moonshine, Nightclub act, Peter Breck, Pickup truck, Ray Austin (director), Robert Hoy, Robert Mitchum, Sandra Knight, Southeastern United States, Tennessee, The Ballad of Thunder Road, Thunder Road (song), Trevor Bardette, United Artists, Weaverville, North Carolina.

Arthur Ripley

Arthur DeWitt Ripley (January 12, 1897 – February 13, 1961) was an American film screenwriter, editor, producer and director.

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Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work with the E Street Band.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carey Loftin

William Carey Loftin (January 31, 1914 – March 4, 1997; akas: Cary Loftin, Carry Loftin, Carey Lofton, William Carey Loftin) was an American professional stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor in the U.S. film industry.

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Colonel Tom Parker

Thomas Andrew "Colonel Tom" Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk; June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997) was the Dutch-born manager of Elvis Presley.

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Crime film

Crime cinema, in the broadest sense, is a cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Dale Van Sickel

Dale Harris Van Sickel (November 29, 1907 – January 25, 1977) was an American college football, basketball and baseball player during the 1920s, who later became a Hollywood motion picture actor and stunt performer for over forty years.

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Don Raye

Don Raye (March 16, 1909 – January 29, 1985), born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just for a Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." The latter was co-written with Hughie Prince.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Drive-in theater

A drive-in theater or drive-in cinema is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen, a projection booth, a concession stand and a large parking area for automobiles.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Gene Barry

Gene Barry (born Eugene Klass, June 14, 1919 – December 9, 2009) was an American stage, screen, and television actor.

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Harry Marker

Harry Marker (October 7, 1899 – October 18, 1990) is an American Oscar-nominated film editor, who also worked in the television medium.

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Hot rod

Hot rods are typically old, classic American cars with large engines modified for linear speed.

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Jack Marshall (composer)

Jack Wilton Marshall (November 23, 1921 – September 20, 1973) was an American guitarist, conductor, and composer.

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Jacques Aubuchon

Jacques Georges Aubuchon (October 30, 1924 – December 28, 1991) was an American actor who appeared in films, stage, and on television in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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James Agee

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.

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James Mitchum

James Mitchum (born May 8, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor and the eldest son of actor Robert Mitchum.

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Keely Smith

Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928The reference work The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet gives Smith's date of birth as March 9, 1932. – December 16, 2017), better known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Kingston Pike

Kingston Pike is a highway in Knox County, Tennessee, United States, that connects Downtown Knoxville with West Knoxville, Farragut, and other communities in the western part of the county.

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Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Lake Lure, North Carolina

Lake Lure is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States.

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List of American films of 1958

A list of American films released in 1958.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Metro Pulse

Metro Pulse was a weekly newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Mitchell Ryan

Mitchell Ryan (born January 11, 1928) is an American film, television, and stage actor, who in his six decades of television is known for playing Burke Devlin in the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, and later for his co-starring role as Thomas Gibson's father Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg.

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Moonshine

Moonshine was originally a slang term for high-proof distilled spirits usually produced illicitly, without government authorization.

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Nightclub act

A nightclub act is a production, usually of nightclub music or comedy, designed for performance at a nightclub, a type of drinking establishment, by a nightclub performer such as a nightclub singer or nightclub dancer, whose performance may also be referred to as a nightclub act.

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Peter Breck

Joseph Peter Breck (March 13, 1929 – February 6, 2012) was an American character actor.

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Pickup truck

A pickup truck is a light-duty truck having an enclosed cab and an open cargo area with low sides and tailgate.

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Ray Austin (director)

Ray Austin (born 5 December 1932) is an English television and film director, television writer, novelist and former stunt performer and actor who has worked in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Robert Hoy

Robert Francis Hoy (April 3, 1927 – February 8, 2010), was an American actor, stuntman and director.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer.

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Sandra Knight

Sandra Knight (born January 1, 1940) is an American actress, painter and writer.

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Southeastern United States

The Southeastern United States (Sureste de Estados Unidos, Sud-Est des États-Unis) is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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The Ballad of Thunder Road

"The Ballad of Thunder Road" is a song performed and co-written by actor Robert Mitchum in 1957, with music by composer Jack Marshall.

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Thunder Road (song)

"Thunder Road" was written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, and is the opening track on his 1975 breakthrough album Born to Run.

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Trevor Bardette

Trevor Bardette (November 19, 1902 – November 28, 1977) was an American film and television actor.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Weaverville, North Carolina

Weaverville is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Road_(film)

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