Thunder Road (1958)
Directed by Arthur Ripley
A Korean War veteran runs his family's moonshine from the Tennessee hills to Memphis in a souped-up car, squeezed between Treasury agents and a city gangster.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Doolin farm≈ 00:02:00Rillow Valley, Tennessee (fictional)Stated on screenFictional
Lucas loads his father's whiskey into his hot rod while a gangster and a Treasury agent close in on the valley's moonshiners.
- 2Francie's nightclub≈ 00:30:00Memphis, TennesseeStated on screen
After delivering a load, Lucas visits Francie, the nightclub singer who is the only one he partly lets in; the gangster Kogan works out of the city.
- 3Rillow Valley, Tennessee (fictional)≈ 00:50:00Stated on screenFictional
- 4The last run≈ 01:20:00Rillow Valley, Tennessee (fictional)InferredFictional
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 1,179 km
- Places
- 2
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 4
- Car: 1,179 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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