Thunder Road is the title of a 1958 movie about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1950s. It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film and co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself, uncredited. The film became a cult classic and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some southeastern markets through the 1970s and 1980s. Mitchum played an anti-hero and rebel against the government, which may have contributed to the film's popularity. In the film, he drove a hot-rodded 1950 Ford coupe with a custom tank in the back for moonshine. Suave Gene Barry appeared as a federal agent devoted to catching Mitchum's character, and Mitchum's son James Mitchum played his younger brother, which worked extremely well due to the close physical resemblance.

The film was based loosely on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have crashed to his death on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee somewhere between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road.

Its theme song was later recorded by Mitchum and became a popular single record, although Mitchum's rendition does not appear in the film itself.

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