Thunder Road (1958) Car Scenes Part 2 of 2

[@josephg41]

As a '57 Ford owner it hurts me to see them get destroyed, but i love seeing films of these beauties in action back in the day.

[@wesleycook7687]

There were 2 cars in Gatlinburg TN in their museum in the 70s that were supposed to be the grey 50 Ford and the red and white 57. They had the tanks in the trunk and the racing mill in the 50. They might have been replicas. They were gone the next year. They could have been the movie cars but it looks like both were destroyed in an explosion and the flipped 57 into a realistic dummy power sub station. Carey Loftin was still in the 57 Ford when he flipped it so I guess both were destroyed. But camera tricks were around in those days. So ,it could have been the movie cars.

[@citywide44]

Nobody but Mitchum could make lighting a cigarette look so cool.

[@gmcman66]

Saw it first time in 1958 at Judean drive in,Dallas Ga. I was 8 years old it instilled the love of souped up cars in me that I still have today 70 now. Robert Mitchum was a great actor,Thunder Road a great movie!!

[@davidburman451]

Hi Wayne...same age here in canada. Our Dad took my brother and I to see this in the local theatre ! We loved it ! Still wrench every car I own even today. Dad had a bunch of V8 Ford wagons in the 50's and 5 kids. Maybe he actually wanted to see it himself ! Mom was ultra straight laced small town big C conservative and scolded his driving if he broke 50 MPH. He managed to convince her the engine needed to "burn the carbon out " she seemed to understand and allowed a few high speed runs after that. I can recall being in the 61 Meteor wagon...352...at 80 + MPH on the newly built 4 lane highway 401. Fresh smooth road very little traffic. Ah the good old days 😻😻😻👍👍

[@patriciajrs46]

Were you born before or after April in 1950? That year's census is being released soon. Just out of curiosity, was wondering if you would be on it. I won't. Still too early for me.

[@kennethbeavers6903]

The exact crash scene of Robert Mitchum was used in the Twilight Zone featuring Buddy Ebsen

[@kennethbeavers6903]

Roberts crash scene was used in the twilight that featured Buddy Ebsen. You don't have to watch the whole episode to see it. It's in the beginning

[@jeffscott8323]

Some of the coolest cars in this movie. Ever made.

[@cymbali]

Log Cabin Motor Court-Asheville, NC-the cabin scenes were filmed in the "Double or nothing cabin"! It is not really advertised. We just stayed there & it's really like stepping back into time! Especially when you look at the movie & compare. You can feel Mitchum's presence there. It was awesome.

[@mikedrivesthebus]

The 'over the waterfall' scene in this movie is Toxaway Falls in Brevard. Awesome! Thanks for posting this.

[@spacepatrolman]

The crash in the power station was used over in THE TWILIGHT ZONE

[@donniejones2511]

I went and saw the movie when it open at the princes theater in morristown,TN in 1958 and it has became a part of my life my dad was a bootlegger and i run whiskey on some of the same roads as in the movie but i drove a 67 chevelle ss

[@johnrunion7258]

Didn't know he was a martial arts expert,that was a vicious judy chop in the opening scene. LOL.At that time my uncle had a new '57 Fairlane Police interceptor with a Paxton on it.He put me on the floorboard a couple times with his sideways antics on those curvy,hilly rural Knoxville clay roads.He'd just take another swig from his pint of Old Crow and give a cowboy yell.The red dust cloud behind was so thick you couldn't see 10ft.If you wanted a decent looking car in those days you had to spray it down each time you drove it off the highways.

[@sachikojackson737]

I'm originally from Bristol. Glen Jackson

[@wesleycook7687]

Carey Loftin was a great stunt driver. He doubled for Mitchum in this movie. Bill Hickman was the driver in the black 57 Ford Custom..They worked together on many occasions.. Bill has screen time as well. He looks different without his glasses but that's him you see in the Ford Custom. He was always thin and tall. Neither were credited on this movie as stunt drivers and Bill isn't listed as an actor in the film. But neither were several actors.

[@rsstrazz6261]

The guitar licks & drum rolls could be an inspiration for the Beach Boys "409", especially the bridge section of the song. The ones here are faster & actually better.

[@sawtnpeppa]

nobody points out that while going at breakneck speed that he turns all the way around to see how close the cops are getting

[@paulfisher6142]

... heh ! heh ! heh ! Distracted driving in 1958 . .. . . ..

[@troublehubbell7671]

whats really cool is his kid brother in movie was his son in real life!

[@kathyeddings3607]

I didn't know that.

[@spacepatrolman]

THEN HE DID BEACH MOVIES

[@lonniebeavers7794]

Note from part one . I was seventeen at the time of my run in with the law . Cost me a good fast car . And a Damn good girl . My miss spent youth !!

[@1967PmdGto]

@cymbali Hey that's cool to know! And because A. I am for stepping back in the time the best I can sometimes, and B. My aunt/uncle recently moved to Asheville, they love it, and want me to come visit, definitely on my list of 'to dos' when the time is right!

[@glenncarver3896]

Saw this at 12 ……..Franklin Ohio……..Me and my friends sang to opening song for yrs………This is what started NASCAR………Wendell Scott……the first Black NASCAR driver was a bootlegger on Thunder Road………

[@marvinjones4415]

I believe they used that crash into the transformers in a Twilight Zone episode about a guy with telekinetics. He uses them to save the person in the car

[@Gunny426HemiPlymouth]

Well why don't you give it back? It's just like stealing aint it?

[@1967PmdGto]

@dsmittyville Well according to various movie sources they say --> ""Most of the scenes were filmed in Asheville, North Carolina Highway 16 and others at Lake Lure. Some scenes were actual local moonshine drivers shot with a camera mounted on pickup tailgate.""

[@leethompson5575]

Love the old 50 ford and I'm a Ford guy and love all the cool cars love moonshine and love women with boobs I love this movie with Robert mitchum

[@CharlotteJessie-q4h]

He drove a 50 ford and a57 build afew in my day love this moi although that's not the Way he died died in Knoxville at tenmile creek knew him

[@TheSomberJester]

@Diogenes1360 Mitchum threw the cig in the guy's face, hence the reason he threw his hands up to his face and not his lap. Also, he did not scream while going over the embankment. This is my favorite Rob Mitchum movie of all time, Cape Fear(the original)is a close second.

[@zenoblevinsbigz6665]

Anyone know the actual 2 tone colors on the 57 ford as movie black and white. Making a model car of it would like to pay homage to it. Thanks

[@tommywaggoner5338]

Yeah that cigarette scene is pretty damn badass

[@shivasirons6159]

0:20 ironic, the guy leaving the garage looks like mitchum.

[@hd150]

can,t imagine those speeds on corners with bias ply tires!

[@nickbishop8930]

And suspension made of marshmallows.

[@pjd4268]

i've driven Bias ply and there are not enough words to describe the crap fest you "enjoy".

[@anthonybrown5066]

Hey man, think about the wieght he was carrying extra in the tank.. and still out drove the boys ..my dad did that stuff back in 50.. im still amazed.. no power steering and power brakes..lol

[@ricardoabad419]

Real drivers.

[@rodcody7278]

That's where driving comes in

[@justindampier9017]

I knew smoking was dangerous!

[@jpape8043]

I read somewhere Elvis Presley was supposed to play Lucas Doolan, but the director thought it would be bad for his image the way the movie ended.

[@waistgunner3930]

It was more like Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, wanted too much $$$

[@Diogenes1360]

@TheSomberJester . . I totally dig what you say . . He's car went screaming off the embankment . . is what I meant . . Your right on! Brother!

[@brianrieves7602]

Good days

[@mrblowhard2u]

At 3:02, dig the mileage on the odometer of Mitchum's '57 Ford. Whens the last time you saw that kind of miles on a 55 year old car?

[@smokey213964]

the car with the low miles really was a moonshine hauler. it was purchased by a moonshiner and then he turned around and sold it to the film company to be used as a movie car since they we're trying to keep the cars authentic. I read that in a collector car paper

[@spacepatrolman]

3:02 New car

[@josephg41]

I have a '57 ford, a Skyliner Retractable Hardtop at that, with 60,500 original miles. They don't grow on trees and mine had a hard life despite what the odometer reads.

[@Hagane17]

@Diogenes1360 Wrote right from Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader.

[@oliverkalamata2753]

The guy that got the cig thrown at him looks like Clive Owen.

[@shivasirons6159]

Violation 702 ? Must be the seatbelt law!

[@happyjjlli]

well I finley seen that they are right !!!! cigarettes does kill!

[@Diogenes1360]

Flickdom's granddaddy of cool, bad Bob Mitchum in a barbiturate-soaked performance. When some creep tries running moonshiner Mitch off the road, Mr. Heavylids coolly removes the old cig from his lips and flicks it across his car, out the window, and into the creep's car. It lands in his lap and he drives screaming to his death over an embankment. Mitchum never changes his expression!

[@farmallskittle]

try typing in proper english

[@wishlist12684]

@@farmallskittle "6:15-6:27 is an enjoyable scene" yeah, yeah, six years after the fact, some translations take time.

[@porterhouse_]

Hey Diogenes1360... your paragraphs are stolen word for word from the Catalog of Cool... what a plagiarist

[@Diogenes1360]

@@porterhouse_ Bravo !!!

[@porterhouse_]

@@Diogenes1360 😄👍

[@WilliamGarrett-fv6ux]

Saw it at7 .it took me sixty years to get a shoebox ford.with a 289 and four speed.all mustang .one in movie looks to be 292. Ford. Close enough.

[@paulfisher6142]

I read somewhere it was a 312 . . . all the cars used were actual moon cars . . .... .. . bought from the shiners ...

[@williamworden3597]

I wish the director would have make up his mind which shoebox Bob was driving. The car goes from 50 to 51 thru out the movie. 😏

[@matthewarendt4416]

Junior Johnson Running moonshine vs Bufford T Justice of Texas!!!

[@TheJer1963]

I think I would rather use Jimmie Johnson although he isn't doing very well now. Don't know why you would want some used up former football coach.

[@wesleycook7687]

Don't you mean race car driver Junior Johnson who was a real moonshine transporter.

[@matthewarendt4416]

@@wesleycook7687 Yes I meant Junior Johnson the Nascar dude.

[@tonyjenkins4843]

Hacksaw ridge

[@Rost333]

Those cops that ran to the car after it hit the electrical substation have no idea about occupational heath and safety.

[@flashesofblack4128]

Hey, that fat guy in the first segment looks just like Curtis Lemay who headed strategic air command! Maybe Curtis had two jobs.

[@matthewcaughey8898]

He would nave been just fine if the revenue agents didn’t kill him

[@dennisyoung4631]

It’s as if they - the Legals - presume anyone driving after dark is up to no good…? (Unless the person is driving an old truck at well-under the speed limit with a payload of (smelly!) livestock.)