Thunder and Lightning

Aug 12, 1977

1h 35m

★ 4.9

It's 250 proof fun! - as they bust up the biggest moonshine racket in the country.

Overview

A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Production Companies

Roger Corman Productions

20th Century Fox

Thunder and Lightning Trailers

Cast

Harley Thomas

David Carradine

Nancy Sue Hunnicutt

Kate Jackson

Ralph Junior Hunnicutt

Roger C. Carmel

Hobe Carpenter

Sterling Holloway

Rudi Volpone

Eddie Barth

Bubba

Ron Feinberg

Jake Summers

George Murdock

Taylor

Patrick Cranshaw

Jim Bob

Charles Napier

Mrs. Hunnicutt

Hope Pomerance

Rainey

Malcolm Jones

Bartender

Charles Willeford

When mischievous teenaged cousins Bo and Luke Duke are arrested, both boys are paroled to the care of their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard, sentenced to a summer of hard work. It's not long before the Duke boys learn of Boss Hogg's plans to foreclose on Uncle Jesse's farm. Together, with help from their cousin Daisy, Bo and Luke vow to save the family's property and its storied history of producing the best moonshine in all of Hazzard.

6.2

Thunder Road

May 10, 1958

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won't let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.

4.9

Drop Dead Sexy

Mar 12, 2005

When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.

4.1

Redneck Zombies

Feb 14, 1989

A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks from the liquor they produced turns into a zombie.

7.1

Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys

Dec 7, 2008

"Say goodnight to the bad guys" picks up where "A Sh*t river runs through it" left off. it's a year after the events of A.S.R.R.T.I and Ricky, Julian, and bubbles are rich with cash, but Julian sits on the money for a year claiming "movies like casino prove that waving money around right away is a bad idea." and then hides it in his newly purchased Delorean (AKA car from back to the future)

6.8

The Little Giant

May 20, 1933

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

4.0

The Girls from Thunder Strip

Nov 11, 1970

A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.

6.2

White Lightning

Aug 6, 1973

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

5.6

The Dukes of Hazzard

Aug 5, 2005

Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Their efforts constantly find the 'Duke Boys' eluding authorities in 'The General Lee', their 1969 orange Dodge Charger that keeps them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town's Sheriff, Roscoe P. Coltrane.

6.7

Life

Apr 16, 1999

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

5.3

Stick

Apr 26, 1985

After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by the same people, who work for mobster Chucky, Stick gets a job as a chauffeur for millionaire Barry Braham and lies low. As he gets used to his new routine, Stick woos Barry's financial consultant, Kyle McClaren, but must fight back when Chucky's men come after him.

7.5

Them Thar Hills

Jul 21, 1934

Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.

7.4

Bootleggers

Jan 8, 1962

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...

5.2

Lucky Lady

Dec 25, 1975

When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.

4.5

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

Oct 9, 1981

In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.

4.9

Moonshine County Express

Jun 1, 1977

The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local crime syndicate.

5.4

Dixie Dynamite

May 13, 1976

When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed

4.2

Killers Three

Nov 1, 1968

America's DJ Dick Clark and Robert Walker Jr. star as two country boys who decide to rob a pile of cash from a bootlegger, assisted by the man's restless wife (Diane Varsi). But the heist doesn't go as planned and takes a tragic turn. The trio of would-be thieves then takes off for California, but with the police already on their tail, it's clear that a trail of blood and death is going to follow them all the way there.