Robert Mitchum sings The Ballad of Thunder Road
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).
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