Like Crider, I saw the Mitchum/James Atlee Philips movie
"Thunder Road" in the theater. I also saw it at least twice
at a drive-in movie, which may be the ultimate way to view
it. It was a true cult film in the south and ran endlessly at
drive-ins and theaters. As most of the deep south was
still
"dry" by law in the 1950s (& 1960s for that matter),
bootlegging was a well-established activity.
Some of the location filming for "Thunder Road" was done near
Asheville, N.C. and when I visited my relatives up there they
took great pride in that fact and took me through some of the
hairpin curves used in the movie.
I was such a Mitchum fan that I bought his Capitol Record
album "Calypso is like so" when it was new in the
stores.
Richard Moore
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