I lived outside of fort benton on the ranch then and used to drive to great falls all the time with my friends i just got my drivers license that summer. I did something different when i watched this film. Thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 directed by michael. Reports on imdb said the church building at the beginning of the clint eastwood movie thunderbolt and lightfoot was filmed in hobson, mt and torn down and moved to troy, mt in the 1980s to. Certainly thunderbolt clint eastwood and lightfoot jeff bridges are introduced as contrasts. This was the first movie directed by michael cimino. The real thunderbolt and lightfoot story goes back to 1818, when a dr. Its stylish but fastpaced, popcornready but open to analysis by thinkier viewers. Thunderbolt and lightfoot eventually team up with their pursuers, red and eddie, played respectively by george kennedy, and geoffrey lewis.
With clint eastwood, jeff bridges, geoffrey lewis, catherine bach. See more ideas about thunderbolt and lightfoot, lightfoot, homeschool. They go via sun canyon road to diversion lake near augusta. The 1974 film thunderbolt and lightfoot starring clint eastwood and jeff bridges and written and directed by michael cimino was based on. Instead thunderbolt and lightfoot is an actionroad comedy with clint eastwood and jeff bridges. Technically the disc looks great and the supplements are. Pursuing thunderbolt and lightfoot are a sadist george kennedy and another thug whos not the sharpest knife in the drawer geoffrey lewis. Thunderbolt and lightfoot has the ingredients of a highdollar buddy comedy, but it also steers toward quieter, more mature territory that ultimately gives it greater cinematic electricity. Thunderbolt and lightfoot things i miss about home.
He gives the minister a ride and soon discovers that the man is actually a notorious bank robber known as the thunderbolt clint eastwood who used to be part of a famous criminal gang. Clint is the thunderbolt and a howcouldhehaveeverbeenthatyoungandskinny jeff bridges is lightfoot. Lightfoot eventually learns that the minister is really a notorious bank robber known as the thunderbolt clint eastwood for his use of an oerlikon 20 mm cannon. Thunderbolt and lightfoots quest for the cash however, when thought through, serves to further an argument in favour of a more integrated position in society.
Escaping on foot, thunderbolt and lightfoot hitch a ride the next morning and are dropped off near warsaw, montana, where they stumble upon the oneroom schoolhousenow a historical monument on the side of a highwaymoved there from its original location in warsaw after the first heist. It picks back up when they plot to do a heist in the past. Thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 filming locations, montana, clint eastwood, jeff bridges, george kennedy, geoffrey lewis, catherine bach, gary busey. With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber. A car was smashed into the paris of montana in downtown great falls during the filming of thunderbolt and lightfoot in 1973. Thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 filming locations clint. Thunderbolt and lightfoot could be looked upon as being the archetypal 70s movie.
See more ideas about thunderbolt and lightfoot, jeff bridges and clint eastwood. Although the plan goes awry, thunderbolt and lightfoot discover that they may. Thunderbolt and lightfoot, the highwaymen who raised hell. Thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 filming location clint. Thunderbolt and lightfoot is a 1974 american crime film written and directed by michael cimino and starring clint eastwood, jeff bridges, george kennedy, and geoffrey lewis plot as a young neerdowell named lightfoot jeff bridges steals a car, an assassin attempts to shoot a minister delivering a sermon at his pulpit. A movie well worth watching, and one that many eastwood and bridges fans may have missed bridges was nominated for bestsupporting actor. It was made in 1973 and released in 1974 by united artists the last film eastwood ever did for the independent studio. This is mostly due to ciminos script and bridges acting and honest words. Thunderbolt and lightfoot is an overlong, sometimes hilariously vulgar comedydrama, about the restaging of a difficult safecracking heist.
Thunderbolt disguises himself as a preacher at st john s lutheran church in hobson, southeast of great falls sadly it is no longer there. They take the blackboard off the wall, and find the money from the original robbery, just as it had been hidden. Lightfoot, speeding on a country road in a stolen muscle car, picks up the fleeing thunderbolt and outdrives the gunman for kicksand experiences a sort of fraternal love at first sight for his. Thunderbolt and lightfoot, the highwaymen who raised hell in new england michael martin led a robin hoodstyle life, before becoming the last man to be hanged in. Thunderbolt and lightfoot is a 1974 american crime comedy film written and directed by michael cimino and starring clint eastwood, jeff bridges, george. They start planning to rob the same bank in the same way. John wilson arrived in dummerston, vermont, and began practicing medicine. It also could be regarded as the screens first bromance as there is an underlying love story being played out.
Clint eastwood and jeff bridgess modern western the new yorker. With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist. Thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 filming locations image by brizzle born and bred thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 director. Thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 filming location clint eastwood jeff bridges. Clint eastwood and jeff bridges play the title characters. Retired thief thunderbolt clint eastwood and sweet drifter lightfoot jeff bridges meet cute when thunderbolt jumps into lightfoots stolen car to escape a gunman.
Saturday cinema thunderbolt and lightfoot locations. Thunderbolt and lightfoot is a 1974 american crime film written and directed by michael cimino and starring clint eastwood, jeff bridges. Thunderbolt and lightfoot hitchhike out of town, then discover a oneroom schoolhouse. Where in montana was the movie thunderbolt and lightfoot. Where in montana was the movie thunderbolt and lightfoot filmed. This is far more than a buddy picture,rather one of the greatest love stories on filmall. Although eastwood generally refused to spend much time in scouting for locations, particularly unfamiliar ones. Captain lightfoot is a 1955 american cinemascope technicolor adventure film directed by douglas sirk starring rock hudson, barbara rush and jeff morrow and is a hollywood adaptation of a book by w.
It stars clint eastwood and jeff bridges, but it ranks among the leastseen films in either of these actors filmographies. If youre transgender, the joke in this scene is on you. Theres something of a shaggy dog story quality to thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974, the offbeat road movie caper film starring clint eastwood as thunderbolt, an exthief on the run from his former partners, and jeff bridges as a hotshot kid who calls himself lightfoot and decides to become this flinty veterans sidekick. It get a bit worse when they meet up with thunderbolts friends of the past. Filming locations 7 filming dates 1 filming locations. Thunderbolt and lightfoot is a 1974 american crime comedydrama movie. Nine reasons to watch thunderbolt and lightfoot kcet.
Thunderbolt and lightfoot is a 1974 american crime film written and directed by michael cimino and starring clint eastwood, jeff bridges, george kennedy, and geoffrey lewis. Aug 29, 2017 a few nice nordic valley utah images i found. Thats my set up for 1974s thunderbolt and lightfoot, airing 9 p. Cimino was already making an aesthetic of inarticulateness, and the film is by. Its a mustsee modern western starring two great actors. Thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 filming locations the movie. Weve written about it before, and some feedback clued us into the fact that a cultlike following surrounds this film, and it extends around the world. The building had been moved, intact, a year earlier.
Thunderbolt and lightfoot is far from the best of a pantload of works in the genre, but given you get young clint eastwood and younger jeff bridges, set against a capable script executed by actors who believe in the work, it proves to be an honest walk through real and fictional montana. Burnett written in 1954 the movie is set in the early 19th century with the hero and his brotherinarms becoming highwaymen, robbing the wealthy around the foothills of. Thunderbolt and lightfoot 1974 movies, tv, celebs, and more. Retired thief thunderbolt clint eastwood and sweet drifter lightfoot jeff bridges meet cute when thunderbolt jumps into lightfoot s stolen car to escape a gunman. Clint eastwood plays thunderbolt, a criminal hiding out as a country parson who meets lightfoot jeff bridges, a cheerful drifter half his age, while escaping from two old associates a brutal. It stays the same when they get jobs and scout the place. The 1973 plymouth fury iii from thunderbolt and lightfoot is one of the more bangshifty movie cars ever audi specialist august 9, 2017 at 5. The film was shot in 47 days from july to september 1973. Thunderbolt and lightfoot is a 1974 american crime comedy film written and directed by michael cimino and starring clint eastwood, jeff bridges, george kennedy, and geoffrey lewis. It was the directorial debut of michael cimino, who wrote. It was filmed in fort benton, wolf creek, great falls, and hobson. Thunderbolt and lightfoot simple english wikipedia, the. In the early part of the 70s, there were a number of films that could be grouped together and put in the same genre.
Watch thunderbolt and lightfoot online 1974 movie yidio. Lightfoot jeff bridges is riding in a car he has just stolen when he accidentally runs over a man who is chasing after what appears to be a minister. Thunderbolt and lightfoot is a protobromance that becomes a crime. Clint eastwood thunderbolt and lightfoot true story. How is the ideal beauty exemplified in aphrodite of melos. Jeff bridges was nominated for an academy award for best supporting actor. Thunderbolt and lightfoot this was a pretty good movie filmed in great falls and area during the summer of 1973. Lightfoot, for instance, wants nothing more than to purchase a brand new cadillac, i. Cut to a scene where thunderbolt is driving out of a dealer with a brand new cadillac convertible, picks up lightfoot, and they drive.
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