Robert Mitchum - Thunder Road
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- Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 -- July 1, 1997) was an American film actor and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and '60s.
One of the lesser known aspects of Robert Mitchum's career was his forays into music. His voice had long been used instead of the professional singers when characters portrayed by Mitchum sang in his films. Notable productions featuring Mitchum's own singing voice included Rachel and the Stranger (1948), River of No Return (1954) and The Night of the Hunter (1955). After hearing traditional calypso music and meeting artists such as Mighty Sparrow and Lord Invader while filming Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in the Caribbean island of Tobago, he recorded Calypso - Is Like So . . . in March of 1957. On the album, released through Capitol Records, he emulated the calypso sound and style, even adopting the style's unique pronunciations and slang. A year later he recorded a song he had written for the film Thunder Road, titled "The Ballad of Thunder Road." The country-styled song became a modest hit for Mitchum, reaching #69 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart. The song was included as a bonus track on a successful reissue of Calypso. . . and helped market the film to a wider audience.
Though Mitchum continued to use his singing voice in his film work, he waited until 1967 to record his follow-up record, That Man, Robert Mitchum, Sings. The album, released by Nashville-based Monument Records, took him further into country music, and featured songs similar to The Ballad of Thunder Road. "Little Old Wine Drinker Me," the first single, was a top ten hit at country radio, reaching #9 there, and crossed over onto mainstream radio, where it peaked at #96. Its follow-up, "You Deserve Each Other," also charted on the Billboard Country Singles Chart.
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Mitchum was the coolest of the cool cats. He had a walk of confidence that I've never seen repeated.
King of COOL
Luke Perry
I also have a Copperhead Road sign on the door to my man cave.
To be cool, in those times, was 2:38 what most of us guys wanted, every day.
randym, you damn right !!
My grandmother was in this! Not a huge part, but she played Gene Barry’s wife in the film in one scene. I’ll always have a special love for this film for that reason.
I remember her in the movie what is her name?
@@anthonynelson9136 Unfortunately, she is not credited. But her name was Betsy Holt (later Dumeer).
@@ozybeastias8893 I did find the full cast after I asked the question and she is listed. For a low-budget movie, it did have a lot of stars and a few that became fairly famous later in their careers. I hope your grandmother was able to leave you with some memorabilia from the movie, but if not there is always the movie itself. Not everyone can slip in a DVD and see their grandmother acting in the same movie that has Robert Mitchum in it.
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That's a cool piece of cinema history!!
My dad used to sing this song to me a lot when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite. But, you know, looking at the story, it really makes me angry that during that time the police could take actions designed to kill someone for no other reason than they didn't pay the taxes on alcohol. We fought a war with Britain over less.
My dad had the record of this song. He played it a lot, and I did too when I learned how
It is not the brewing that gets you killed, it is running from the cops.
'Been going on since the Whiskey Rebellion and before, and they had, and still do have, a very good argument.
@@ShadowsOnTheScreen The hell you preach. This is when you not only had DRY COUNTIES BUT DRY STATES. Effectively between the Chicago Outfit and the distilleries that sold at astronomical markups and screamed about "WE PAY OUR TAXES". That is why when I hear about the Beam family and their semi-top shelf Kentucky Bourbon or Tennessee Whiskey- I'd as sooner drink tap water as support their bullshit.
My dad taught it to me and I sang it. My generation's version is Copperhead Road, althought I will say that Steve can go fuck himself...
Robert Mitchum was a real bad ass, not a pretender or pretty boy.
Mitchum actually wrote this song for the movie. Actor, singer _and_ songwriter. Very talented individual Mr. Mitchum was.
Simone G Amen Simone xx
This is the best version Glenn Yarbrough sung it in the movie really slowwwwww
Love the bass in this song
It’s not on the soundtrack of the movie, but another slightly more downbeat ballad is used in the opening credit sequence. I imagine the song was released around the same time to promote the movie? It’s very much a family project, with the script being adapted from Mitchum’s own story. His oldest son plays the roll of his kid brother, which is interesting to watch too. With better casting for the villain and perhaps for the G Man hot on their heals, this might have been a classic we all remember, instead of the largely forgotten diamond in the rough we have now. It’s an oddly better movie than I was expecting, with a strong story, plot and characters. And it has some genuinely unexpected and occasionally jolting action sequences that were pretty advanced for its day. You can see the prototype for Smokey And The Bandit and later, The Dukes Of Hazard in this movie, but with a darker tone. I can see why it was a cult drive-in movie. If you know about the time, you’ll be aware that the kids are not listening to Blue Grass music, but the latest chart topping Rock & Role, and that they’re surprisingly well turned out, in the latest clothing fashions, for the kids of bootleggers in the hills. Their parents are dressed authentically, and listening to fiddles and washboards in their spare time. So, the sense of a youth sub-culture pervades the whole movie, for the kids of the day, who must have seen the whole thing as romantic and glamorous. Well worth a watch for fans of Mitchum, or any movie buff really. And way ahead of its time.
I never knew he could sing. It's good.
Movie shot in Ashville north Carolina fall of 1957 released may 58.the cars were bought from the moonshiners in north Carolina for the movie.In the opening scene the car flips on its roof.The stuntman hit an obstacle in the soft earth and rolled.The car was fixed and painted grey. the movie car the 50 ford was bought by james mitchum after the show and brought back to California for him to drive to high schoo.JAMES WOULD SHOW THE KIDS HOW THE BACK BUMPER DROP SYSTEM WORKED.
Thanks for the info he was a one of a kind,a favorite
What always amazed me was the sophisticated equipment on the transporter cars. Not just the oil and bumper drops or the racing mill but a 250 gallon tank in the trunk. Most of the local moonrunners I knew had old cars with no hubcaps and the whiskey was usually in jars or jugs. Robert Mitchum wrote the original story so he must have known of moonrunners that actually used this equipment.
250 Gallon tank, come on, does anybody actually believe that. Thats more than 5 44 Gallon drums fall
Must have knew? 😂
Well,movies do tend to exxagerate.
A moonshiners in 1960 told me that all the equipment on transporter cars was real. Some had 250 gallon tanks. Special shocks were used. Some of the other things like the bumper drop and oil drop were used on the best transporters' cars. All had racing Mills. Moonshiners were inventive. Junior Johnson had things on his 39 Ford that he invented. A 250 tank makes sense in case of a rollover or a way to dump a load if the revenuers got too close. You have a lot to learn about the moonshiners from the 50s and 60s. Remember the tank filled the whole trunk. I agree 250 gallons is a lot but the transporter cars were actually rolling high speed tankers. The point has never came up so I haven't thought about it. A 150 gallon moon tank might be plausible. But, it was a movie ( very good) and the characters said 250 gallons. Cars back then had big trunks.
@@wesleycook7687 250gal would weigh half of what the car does. It would break the dang thing in two. You could spot the runners empty because they added spring leaves to carry the load, thus the car's ass would be up in the air empty, but loaded it would look normal. The engine would be the hottest they could build and the radiator would be the biggest one they could fit in there from some truck. An overxdrive unit would be added if there were long open stretches to run. Many had an oil tank which could only be dumped once per run, but that weight and space was more profitable as product, plus they were illegal so you had to take it out between runs or risk having your car confiscated. Bumpers and brackets were often reinforced to better ram with, with the rear bumper bolts sometimes being sawed half in two. Not too many Cops wanted to snag a runner by the rear bumper because you couldn't release it and you were along for whatever ride the runner took you on like slinging you into a tree which usually broke the 'snag' device. Local Cops usually didn't have two-way radio but the Feds often did which was the thing everyone most feared as it could outrun you. It was rather limited in range and there was no hiding the large antenna needed for it so the runners could often spot the Feds. Unlike the movies, runners drove slow and careful to avoid drawing attention to them and which would save the engine's usable life. My second cousin took a train to Detroit to collect the first Olds Rocket 88 in these parts, long before any hit the showroom floors this side of Atlanta. Nothing around here could touch him for a year and a half till a girl saw his nice new car and asked him to take her for a ride. He married her which ended his days running shine.
My first car as a teenager was a 57 Ford Fairlane 500. Always liked this movie 🎥. It had 2 stars ⭐️ the Car & Mitchum…..
Love me some 57 Ford Fairland 500,, I had 1 in 1970, Best looking Year in my opinion,,
I too had a 57 Fairlane--the slightly less ornate Fairlane Victoria edition but it had the straight stick, 4-barrel carb and V-8 motor. I inherited the car from my Daddy who died suddenly and sadly shortly after buying it in 1958. I've had many great vehicles since then but it was the fastest and prettiest.
Just loved this movie along with Robert Mitchum. His son in the movie that played his brother, did a great job and is the spitin image of Robert.
I love this movie. I have seen it 36 times. And enjoy it every time I watch it.
I love it too. The scene where he is driving fender to fender and then flicks his cigarette into the eyes of the other driver is one my favorites.
Keep going till you've seen it 100 times. Cool never gets old!!
I remember seeing this movie as a teenager and loved every moment of it, in school there was talk all over about the movie, and his song
2 most distinctive voices Bob Mitchum and Sam Elliot. 2 cool great actors
They certainly are. Sam is now 78 and shows no sign of slowing down.
I just pulled this song up because I thought about the movie and I saw it when I was a kid and made an impression on me, that's when I really started liking Robert Mitchum, like I say I was a kid great actor and great song rip mr. Mitchum
Love this song/movie, when I was a teenager that was my favorite movie of the time..I wish I could find the song now I would love to have it in my song library..
Song and movie are still available.
Thought this was the greatest movie ever back when I was a kid (about 60 years ago)!!!
Were it not for RIDGE RUNNERS, and MOONSHINERS, NASCAR wouldn't exist.
yassss
Yup. Too bad their isn't anything stock about a stock car today but then again everything changes. I'm 60 and my favorite period was when King Richard drove his Charger.
Good old junior Johnson from wilks county nc is where racing was born
@@lonniecavenee6201 "Race 'em on Sunday, buy 'em on Monday"
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BALLAD OF THUNDER ROAD
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Let me tell the story, I can tell it all
About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol
His daddy made the whiskey, son, he drove the load
When his engine roared, they called the highway Thunder Road.
Sometimes into Ashville, sometimes Memphis town
The revenuers chased him but they couldn’t run him down
Each time they thought they had him, his engine would explode
He'd go by like they were standin’ still on Thunder Road.
(CHORUS)
And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road
Thunder was his engine, and white lightning was his load
There was moonshine, moonshine to quench the Devil’s thirst
The law they swore they'd get him, but the Devil got him first.
On the first of April, nineteen fifty-four
A Federal man sent word he’d better make his run no more
He said two hundred agents were coverin’ the state
Whichever road he tried to take, they’d get him sure as fate.
Son, his Daddy told him, make this run your last
The tank is filled with hundred-proof, you’re all tuned up and gassed
Now, don’t take any chances, if you can’t get through
I’d rather have you back again than all that mountain dew.
(CHORUS)
Roarin’ out of Harlan, revin’ up his mill
He shot the gap at Cumberland, and screamed by Maynordsville
With T-men on his taillights, roadblocks up ahead
The mountain boy took roads that even Angels feared to tred.
Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike,
Then right outside of Bearden, they made the fatal strike.
He left the road at 90; that’s all there is to say.
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.
i love robert mitchum, especially in the night of the hunter
I agree his best film
It was his best film but not his most evil. That would be his portrayal of Max Cady in "Cape Fear". He is sooooo nasty in that!
I love this movie. Mitchum was the coolest. Loved his style. Thunder Road Out of The Past and Cape Fear 1961 original is the 3 Favorite movies with Mitchum.
This is awesome ,you forget as we get older what our stars were capable of besides the big screen
Yes your so right!!👍👍👍👍👍😊
I've got it on.DVD somrwhere.
My Dad Bought Moonshine from Jr Johnson's Father.
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The man doing the driving for Robert was Bob Harkey an indy 500 driver
They 'broke the mould' when then made Robert Mitchum!
His Son looked like a mirror image. I got to meet him In Santa Barbara.
Moonshine...to quench the devil's thirst !! Thank you, Mr. Mitchum, for a cult film, and many stars getting their first roles.
Love the song, movie all of it. But minor detail: songs says “ on the first of April 1954”…. Well Mitchum’s car was a ‘57 Ford and the road block cars were either 56 or 57. Just saying…
In 1960, I was an 11 year old kid from the UK, living at my sister and brother in laws house in Selma Al. for 6 months. He was in the USAF, at Craig AFB. I always remember this song.
The bass on this is brilliant
Thank you for that I play bass the bass is kicking ass on this song!!!!!🎸👍
i remember watching thunder road with my father when i was young, and we both loved it!!!!
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I wonder why it not ever on cable????🤔
I agree with all the cudos for Robert Mitchum, but the best Mitchum film for me is "Out of the Past."
I’m currently reading “Baby I don’t care” so I had to see this.
The roots of NASCAR
Great movie. i got it on DVD .57 FORDS MUST HAVE BEEN CHEAP AT RUN OUT TIME AS THEY WROTE OF ABOUT 6 IN THE MOVIE..
Saw that as a boy in 1958 when it came out. Loved the song then and still do.
Jim MItchum also played the little brother in this movie...I remember it so well
My cousin Rex looked just like him. Flat top haircut and all.
..he was busted for smokin' weed long before it became cool..
Mitchum was one of my favorite actors of the golden age of Hollywood and was still getting top billing well into my lifetime and into the 1980s. I would have loved to have seen this at a drive-in theater but I was only 4 at the time and my parent didn't like drive-ins.
Growing up we'd always turn up the AM radio and drive faster every time this song came on.
A documentary is in the works on Thunder Road. Ron Hitchcock did a PBS documentary on the Mitchum family's making of the movie but it was only on the radio so no one probably heard it but people like me. But the documentary is being made for TV.
RIP Poppy. You did what you had to do to feed your family.
My in-laws live in west Knoxville near Bearden Hill and Morrell Rd. I've been through there a million times and never knew that was in the song.
WHEN I WAS IN HIGHSCHOOL WE LISTEN TO THIS ON THE RADIO. AN WE ALL WENT AN SAW THE MOVIE! THIS SONG CAUSED MY FIRST CAR WRECK..I ALL WAYS... DROVE THUNDER ROAD.. IN ILLINOIS ..WHICH WAS ANY ROAD.. I WAS DRIVING ON!.. NO MOONSHINE.. BUT A WHOLE LOT OF SPEED!
I'm reading a book about moonshiners in Georgia now and this chapter is titled Thunder Ŕoad❤
it was the matter of TAXES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This movie does not get the recognition that it should because it is classic noir with the main character pressing on as only he knows how.
Robert Mitchum was a really good actor. As a kid and growing up I loved the older movies and the real actors, still do
Great time in America 🇺🇸
Stumbled onto the original 45 and found that Bob had a brief recording career.
Mitchum wanted Elvis to play the lead role but Elvis was contracted elsewhere.
They use that last scene in the Twilight Zone with Buddy Epsen. He makes it go backwards lol
Did Led Zeppelin do the music for the backwards scene?
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That's right! He played a psychic who could move things with his mind!
He left the road at 90, that's all there is to say...
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day
That mountain boy, Tore up a beautiful 57 Ford that day,, Shame ,shame, shame,,
A '57 ford with only 41 miles on it. I'd drive it.
SpeedyNeutrino172 Especially if it had the supercharged 312 in it.
SpeedyNeutrino172 the 57 had 4000 miles on it at rollover.
@@eagleman8440 4100 on it.
@@CallmeDaBreeze1971 Make sure if you ever did get a 1957 Ford with the 312 in³ V8 engine make sure it's the more sportier Thunderbird engine with with factory Paxton supercharger. . I had one of those type of engines with the Thunderbird V8 with the Paxton supercharger in a 57 Ford two door Station wagon with with 3 speed manual on the column transmission With overdrive. .
@@garyquail4996 - I'm surprised that they came with Paxson superchargers. Studebaker owned Paxson.
cool 57 FURD, COOL ACTOR
Mitchum asked Elvis to be in this film but the colonel blocked it :(
Elvis??? Good thing.Elvis would have been a f-ing disaster in this movie.
I grew up in west Knoxville where the crash occured..alot of shiners and haulers where here then
I was only a young kid when I first had seen that movie on TV , I Wish that I Could Find It On A DVD
Good song. Never heard of it
When families are strong, when faith is strong or weak it takes more than a cotton filter to remind me of whom I love. I see my God every where.
Cool !
Born in 1952 and this could be my story
Very few things as exciting as a high speed police chase, you get away you win you don't you go to jail I myself have hit a half a dozen police cars in my youth and don't recommend it, but I wouldn't want to be any other way I'm an old man with scars and stories of back in the day, if you don't have a T on your tires rethink your high speed escape !!! 2021
Always great to hear this tune......
Really though, it is very tragic, because of the increasing brutal power and tyranny of the feds.
Vanishing Point borrowed heavily from Thunder Road.
Revving up his mill! Old timers call an engine, a mill. Ford's first FE engine and 9" rear axle were introduced in 1957. Tough stuff even today. Ford, GM, and Dodge all use 9" rears in their factory drag cars.
Wrong. Mopar's use there factory 8 3/4 rear axles and Dana 60's. 8 3/4 is simialr to the 9 incher but much better. Dana 60 beats em all.
NEW (2008-2024) Cobra Jets, COPO's and Challengers ALL have 9" Strange rear axles.@@dwc4343
The FE didn't come out until 58, biggest mill Ford had was a 312 in 57, but the great 9in rear end did come out in 57....if the other rear ends are so good then why does everyone run a 9in of some kind lol
@@JeffSherren Correct! I should have remembered that. My cousin was an Edsel salesman in 58! LOL! No B.S.! Unfortunately, he just passed away at the age of 86. RIP.
The first record I ever played I was 5 yrs old. It scared me I could smell the ashes coming off the record. I took off running out of my mother's bedroom mother's bedroom m
Dear Tobacco Companies
Seek cotton.
Love
Crystal
I love this movie it s a classic chase movie
Great movie .I watched it when I was 4 yr old
Dope took over moon shine during Vietnam..running liquor was no fun any more anyway..it's true a lot of drivers ended up on race tracks..
MILO SAGER MOUNTAIN BOY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NORTH IDAHO
heck of a song
One of the more electrifying guitar intros you'll hear.
On"Cheers" ,Sam Malone and Coach said this was their favorite movie.
this would be next soldier boy song in The Boys Season 4
No at the end of the movie Mitchems brother walks away with the girl. Not his son.
James Mitchum played Roberts's brother in the movie but is actually Robert and Dorothy Mitchum's firstborn son.
This is the trashy version not movie version
I've got a poster for Thundet Road in my man cave.
nice wheels 50 and 57 Fords
When I was younger my grandpa played this on the radio all the time
Old "Asheville highway?"
I had other teacher too.
Thank you President Carter.
You are a teacher who inspired me.
I picked up peanut shells today.
Peanuts today are leaders in the future.
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I drove this road from Harlan Ky. to Knoxville TN. years ago..young and dumb.
Would someone explain the last scene to me? Did he die and they faked his funeral procession? The girl and he walked off hand in hand into the dark.
The girl walked off with Luke's little brother, played in the movie by Robert Mitchum's son. Luke, after running an out-of-control car at high speed into a transformer, was well and truly dead. The song's last verse confirms it: "He left the road at ninety. That's all there is to say. The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day."
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Let me tell the story, I can tell it all;
About the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol.
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.
The role of Robin Doolin, Lucas's younger brother, was originally written for Elvis Presley per Mitchum's request. Mitchum personally submitted the script to Elvis in Los Angeles. The singer was eager to play the role, but his manager Colonel Tom Parker demanded Elvis be paid an enormous sum of money, more than the entire budget for the movie, which ended negotiations. Mitchum's son James got the part, which worked well owing to his extremely close physical resemblance to his father. wiki
Have the original record.i live in harris county, ga.at one time was big moonshine county.old stills all around here.
A Black & Yellow Mercury went into Toxaway Falls.
Is there any way to see this old movie? Not on Netflix or Amazon.
I'd like to know that myself!
Movie is available on DVD
187 baby
First motion picture i ever saw
Somebody go get Coach and Sam! Robert Mitchum is on!
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Great movie
Kingston Pike??
Knoxville Tn
Thunder "mountain dew??"
Mountain Dew was Moonshine before it was the delicious and refreshing Pepsi product.
That's what they called moonshine
Nice stunt driving by Carey Loftin. Only drawback was Mitchums one shirt
Need some apple pie shine to drink while hearing this wonderful song from r I p robert