Moonshine Mountain

Thunder Road is a 1958 American Southern Gothic film noir directed by Arthur Ripley and written by James Atlee Phillips and Walter Wise, who based the screenplay on a story by Robert Mitchum. Mitchum based the story told to him by writer and friend James Agee regarding an alleged incident that occurred in Knoxville, Tennessee involving a bootlegger transporting moonshine being pursued by law enforcement along a section of highway from Harlan, Kentucky to Knoxville known infamously as "Thunder Road." Considered a passion project, Mitchum starred in the lead role of Lucas Doolin, a Korean War veteran who returns to his East Tennessee countryside home to operate his family's moonshining operations while confronting federal revenuers seeking to shut his operations down and urban mobsters seeking to take over control of bootlegging in the Appalachia region. The film features Gene Barry as U.S.

Directed by Arthur Ripley