SnakeBytes - Snake van Habanero's Saturday Matinee - 2:00/4:00

[Lynn Wilber]

This week I'll be careening down the pike with "THUNDER ROAD" featuring Robert Mitchum, the lovely Keely Smith, and that killer theme song penned (I believe) by Mitchum hisself. Lots of g-man connivance and hillbilly angst. I always enjoy some company. Svh:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detz0H8KqTU    

[Rich-17WardSt]

This week I'll be careening down the pike with "THUNDER ROAD" featuring Robert Mitchum, the lovely Keely Smith, and that killer theme song penned (I believe) by Mitchum hisself. Lots of g-man connivance and hillbilly angst. I always enjoy some company. Svh:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detz0H8KqTU

Heads up Lynn, I did watch that film because I'm a HUGE Bruce Springsteen fan and was curious about the movie he named a song after. Good movie about moonshiners but Robert Mitchum's brother has a small role in the film, and it might have been the worst 3 minutes of acting I've ever scene.

Cheers

[Lynn Wilber]

Hey there Rich.  You're right that James Mitchum is no Orson Welles, but at least his effort was superlatively bad, not merely mediocre.  Some of my favorite movies are what I classify as "Good/Bad", such as some of the great monster flicks of the Fifties like "The Giant Claw", "Robot Monster", "The Brain from Planet Arrous", or "The Brain that Wouldn"t Die".  It's hard to beat/bear a really good b-movie.  They appeal to the cognitive dissonances lurking in our human nature. SvH