Thunder and Lightning (1977)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Corey Allen

Writer:

William Hjortsberg (writer)

Release Date:

12 August 1977 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Romance

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Police | Convertible | Kidnapping | Redneck | Bootleg Liquor

US TV Schedule:

Tue. July 28

4:35 AM

MAX

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

Also Known As:

Thunder on the Highway

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Ryder Sound Services)

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Naples, Florida, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Goofs:

Continuity: In the last chase, the right-hand mirror or the delivery truck gets shot out. In later scenes, the mirror is intact.

Movie Connections:

References "Captain Kangaroo" (1955)

Doesn't have the commercial appeal of "Smokey and the Bandit", though the leads are game...

Fatuous, witless, disappointing Southern moonshine adventure, with Kate Jackson as the daughter of a soda pop king and manufacturer of poisoned whiskey; she and thrill-seeking boyfriend David Carradine attempt to stop of shipment of the bad booze but run afoul of both the law and the moonshiner's shotgun-toting stooges. The redneck histrionics are shrill and labored, and the comedy relief is rather obvious (one of the better scenes has two hired killers bemoaning all the violence on TV, though it doesn't have the punch that better writing and directing might have given it). There are car crashes galore, two geezer brothers making whiskey in a swamp-land shack, an alligator wrasslin' preacher, and an ear-splitting soundtrack filled with hick music and squealing tires. Jackson and Carradine aren't bad, but they have next to nothing to work with; supporting cast includes some fine character actors, including a bearded, shaggy-haired Charles Napier, but they get stuck playing unfunny goons. Some of the best lines are delivered by the bit players, such as a garbage collector who points when he talks and a foreign delivery man who sings to himself on the job. *1/2 from ****