Uploaded on Nov 1, 2009 by Rick Deevey
A video I cut together with car chase scenes from the 1958 Robert Mitchum movie, Thunder Road. The background music track is a theme song for the movie, written and sung by Robert Mitchum (though his version wasn’t used in the movie).
The movie had a lot of influence for a B-rate feature. It was the inspiration for Bruce Springsteen’s song “Thunder Road” (though the song and the movie have nothing much to do with each other; The Boss saw a poster for the movie and liked the name); some aspects of the design of the car led to the design of the Batmobile later on the TV series; the movie could be considered a prequel to the Steve Earle song “Copperhead Road”; and it was an influence in the creation of “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV series (but don’t hold that against it).
Cool song GrayRider! Bruce Springsteen’s song ‘Thunder Road’ just so happens to be one of my favorite songs. Yeah, it has nothing to do with this song at all! I bought my daughter a LP player for Christmas, and the Springsteen album was one of the first records she got from her sister. They call it mom’s song. Haha! 🙂