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Thunder and Lightning (1977)
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Director:
Writer:
William Hjortsberg (writer)
Release Date:
12 August 1977 (West Germany)
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Tagline:
It's 250 proof fun! - as they bust up the biggest moonshine racket in the country.
Plot:
A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation. | add synopsis
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Molotov Cocktail
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Sabotage
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Racial Slur
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Truck
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An enjoyable and funny movie
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | David Carradine | ... | Harley Thomas |
 | Sterling Holloway | ... | Hobe Carpenter |
| Patrick Cranshaw | ... | Taylor |
| Charles Napier | ... | Jim Bob |
 | George Murdock | ... | Jake Summers |
| Ron Feinberg | ... | Bubba |
 | Kate Jackson | ... | Nancy Sue Hunnicutt |
| Roger C. Carmel | ... | Ralph Junior Hunnicutt |
| Hope Pomerance | ... | Mrs. Hunnicutt |
| Eddie Barth | ... | Rudi Volpone (as Ed Barth) |
| Malcolm Jones | ... | Rainey |
| Charles Willeford | ... | Bartender |
| Christopher Raynolds | ... | Scooter |
| Claude Earl Jones | ... | Carl (as Claude Jones) |
| Emilio Rivera | ... | Honeydew Driver |
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Also Known As:
Thunder on the Highway
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95 min
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Mono (Ryder Sound Services)
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Sterling Holloway's final film role.
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Continuity: Cases of bottles fall out of the rear of the truck, during the final chase. After the chase, when the delivery truck stops, those drink cases are still stacked up in the truck.
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References "Captain Kangaroo" (1955)
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Thunder and Lightning is an interesting movie, it's an action movie with a plot! The characters actually have reasons to do what they do. David Carradine stars as a bootlegger and Kate Jackson is his fiancee. Her father is a soft-drink manufacturer who is secretly making and distributing large quantities of moonshine. The conflict starts when her father's goons decide to close down Carradine's operation. It is pretty much an adventure comedy from then on, with lots of car chases, fights, banjo music, rednecks, hillbillies and moonshine. Watch for the gator-wrestling church!