THUNDER ROAD (MP 1958) RARE! HARD TO FIND! Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, James Mitchum, Peter Breck, Jacques Aubuchon, Mitchell Ryan, Sandra Knight, Keely Smith

Thunder Road is a black-and-white 1958 drama-crime drama film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring Robert Mitchum, who also wrote the story. The supporting cast features Gene Barry, James Mitchum, Peter Breck, Jacques Aubuchon, Mitchell Ryan, Sandra Knight and Keely Smith. The film's plot concerns running bootleg moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee in the late 1950s. The Plot: Lucas Doolin (Robert Mitchum) works in the family moonshine business, running liquor his father distills to clandestine distribution points throughout the South in his hot rod.  However, Lucas has more problems than evading government "revenuers". Both a hothead and a fatalist, he is concerned that his teen-aged younger brother Robin (James Mitchum), who is also his mechanic, will be tempted into following in his footsteps. An aggressive urban gangster, Carl Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), is trying to gain control of the independent local moonshine producers and their distribution po