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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> Richard wrote:
>
> "Finally, James Atlee Phillips belongs in my
personal hall of fame for
> having written the screenplay to that wonderful
drive-in favorite
> "Thunder Road" starring Robert Mitchum."
>
> For anyone in the DC area, the movie is playing at
AFI Silver
> (www.afi.com/silver) several times between 4/18 and
4/24. I'm looking
> forward to finally seeing it on something larger
than a TV screen.
>
> Mark
>
Man, I saw that flick first at the Starlight Drive-in on
Moreland Avenue south of Atlanta and saw it at least twice
more at the McDonough Theater. It played forever in the
south.
My cousins in Asheville, NC took me to all the locations
where the movie was filmed. They had a fiftieth anniversay of
the movie in Asheville last year.
From what I understand the final script for Thunder Road was
hammered out by Phillips and Mitchum in the Grove Park Inn in
Asheville. Friends, let me tell you, the Grove Park Inn may
not be heaven but if I wake up there when I die, I won't
complain. My Uncle Andy and his brothers brought the rocks in
for their massive fireplaces and if it was good enough for F.
Scott, it suits me too.
According to Lee Server's excellent biography of Robert
Mitchum, James' brother David Atlee Phillips, a senior
official at the CIA (and a player in the Bay of Pigs
adventure), made some phone calls that opened the door to
help at the ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unit at the
Treasury Department).
Richard Moore
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