Production Year: 1974 - Action/Adventure - Director: Michael Cimino - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, Burton Gilliam, Jack Dodson
Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in Michael Cimino's brilliant directorial debut. This well-written film, featuring strong performances, is about a complex caper in which... more
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in the genre-crime story Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, directed by first-timer Michael Cimino who (a short two films later) would bring down a studio with Heaven's G...
in the genre-crime story Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, directed by first-timer Michael Cimino who (a short two films later) would bring down a studio with Heaven's G...
Advantages: Cast, story Disadvantages: Sad ending?
...you go back to them. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is one of those films that the BBC likes to use as a late night 'filler' - a little too risky for an earlier timeslot but solid depandable entertainment. Is it best resigned to the late night slot or is the Beeb doing it a great injustice?
Loose cannon Lightfoot literally runs into a preacher on the run (who at the time is being shot at by a rather nasty man). Despite his collar, the preacher turns ... ...preacher is in fact The Thunderbolt who had robbed a high security bank several years earlier and the guys shooting at them are in fact his partners (who think that he's swindled them out of their share of the booty). Despite their experience, the three hardened crims allow themselves to be talked into performing the same heist again all over again, and practice does make perfect...doesn't it?
The simple heist movie has been done time and time again ...
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Actor(s): Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, Burton Gilliam, Jack Dodson
Director(s): Michael Cimino
Genre: Action & Adventure
Classification: 18 years and over
Production Year: 1974
Running Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: The story of four men who scheme to rob an armoured car.
DVD Description
Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in Michael Cimino's brilliant directorial debut. This well-written film, featuring strong performances, is about a complex caper in which Bridges plays a young drifter who teams up with an ex-con (Eastwood) and his former partners in crime to restage a difficult safecracking heist. Conveyed in a tone that mixes dramatic and comic elements, the film is a rich blend of engaging characters and action.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): MGM ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 21/07/2003
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 19838 DVD
Editor: Ferris Webster
Barcode: 5050070010305
Production Designer: Tambi Larsen
Screenwriter: Michael Cimino
Composer: Dee Barton
Cinematographer: Frank Stanley
Director of Photography: Frank Stanley
Producer: Robert Daley, Michael Cimino
Author: Michael Cimino
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Sound: Mono
Dubbing Sound: Mono English
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