32° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
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ROLLING THUNDER

ROLLING THUNDER
by JOHN FLYNN
Country: USA
Year: 1977
Duration: 95'


After years in Vietnam, Major Rane returns to San Antonio with his friend, Corporal Johnny. Things aren’t going too well at home, but the city celebrates its hero and gives him 2,555 silver dollars, which tempt a group of murderous criminals. Four years after The Outfit, another revenge movie by Flynn, violent and lucid, written by Paul Schrader. An icy performance by the protagonist William Devane, backed up by Tommy Lee Jones. A cult movie of Tarantino, who named his distributing company Rolling Thunder Pictures.

Biography

film director

John Flynn

FILMOGRAFIA

The Sergeant (Il sergente, 1968), The Jerusalem File (1972), The Outfit (Organizzazione crimine, 1973), Rolling Thunder (id., 1977), Defiance (I violenti di Borrow Street, 1980), Marilyn: The Untold Story (Marilyn - Una vita, una storia, tv, 1980), Lone Star (tv, 1980), Touched (1983), Best Seller (Bestseller, 1987), Lock Up (Sorvegliato speciale, 1989), Out for Justice (Giustizia a tutti i costi, 1991), Nails (Nails: un poliziotto scomodo, tv, 1992), Scam (Trappola per due, 1993), Brainscan (Brainscan - Il gioco della morte, 1994), Absence of the Good (tv, 1999), Protection (2001).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
John Flynn
soggetto/story
Paul Schrader
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Heywood Gould, Paul Schrader
fotografia/cinematography
Jordan Cronenweth
montaggio/film editing
Frank P. Keller
scenografia/production design
Stephen Myles Berger
musica/music
Barry De Vorzon
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
William Devane (magg./maj. Charles Rane), Tommy Lee Jones (Johnny Vohden), Linda Haynes (Linda Forchet), Dabney Coleman (Maxwell), Lisa Blake Richards (Janet)
produttore/producer
Norman T. Herman
produzione/production
American International Pictures
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