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Rolling Thunder
starring: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best, Dabney Coleman
directed by: John Flynn

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303471617
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6303471617
Label: Good Times Video
Manufacturer: Good Times Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Good Times Video
Release Date: May 15, 2001
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Good Times Video
Sales Rank: 760

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Rolling Thunder's ex-Vietnam War POW Major Charles Rane (William Devane) returns to a hero's welcome in San Antonio in the early '70s. He's bestowed with a red Cadillac convertible, $2,500 in silver dollars, and accolades from all sides. Soon, however, he discovers that all is not as it seems; his wife strayed with a close friend during his years of confinement. He also finds that he has his own personal POW groupie, Linda; her fascination with him is met with the same shoulder-shrugging blandness that he shows toward everything else in what's left of his life. One day Rane comes home to find a houseful of assorted Texas white trash demanding his small fortune in silver dollars. Their efforts to beat him into revealing the location of the money are for naught, so they jam his right hand down a garbage disposal instead. When his wife and kid come home, the two gladly give up the money but the robbers cold-bloodedly gun them down anyway. Flash-forward: Rane has himself fitted with a hook prosthesis (which he sharpens on a grinder), cuts down a couple of shotguns, and points the scarlet Caddy land yacht south towards Nuevo Laredo, bent on revenge. With Linda in tow, he tracks the bad guys as far as Acuña and Juárez, where he hooks up with war buddy Johnny (Tommy Lee Jones) for a final showdown. What would otherwise play as a routine revenge story is given a measure of dimension and depth by Devane's performance and Paul Schrader's script. The comparison to Schrader scripts such as the previous year's Taxi Driver are inevitable and obvious. Like Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle, Rane wears opaque state-trooper sunglasses that allow no window into his dead soul. However, Bickle's internal monologues are missing; all the audience can see of Rane's character is what's on the surface, only what Rane wants others to see. He's simply a vengeful automaton, riddled with a cold, poisonous, implacable rage. Strong stuff indeed. --Jerry Renshaw

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Wish this was on DVD
In the 1970s, Hollywood came out with some "vengeance" movies. Another one that comes to mind is "The Farmer," which I saw with a group of buddies at the (Air Force) base theater.

Anyway, while "Rolling Thunder" might be short on military protocol (sloppy salutes and ill-fitting uniforms), it's long on what you would expect from this genre.

The bad guys are bad: Dirty rotten scoundrels in need of a shave and full of greed. They hang out in seedy bars and whorehouses and wear filthy shirts and have bad teeth. You get the sense that exterminating them is the right thing to do.

William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones are the anti-heroes. Icy cold. resolute and only after the bad guys. They don't lay a finger on a good guy.

The film slows down in ... Read More

Rating:

- AWESOME!
A powerful film that cuts to the chase; pent up violence unleashed on the bad guys. Devane gives a solid performance, Jones is hard in his brief appearance towards the end of the movie. I saw the vhs version some years ago and was caught up in renting it because of the "Vietnam" reference; three tours spent in 'Nam which brought flashbacks. See this film if you haven't already because it is a headbanger! By the by, for all of you fans of this flick, it is available in dvd format via Ebay (up for bids).

Rating:

- deceptively simple revenge movie
WARNING: Spoilers follow
Plot-wise, this is your basic revenge story. But under the surface it is so much more. The first section of the film, nearly the first half, dealing with the homecoming of Major Charles Rane, a Viet Nam POW, is genuinely sad. 90% of "action" films not only do not choose this kind of tack, but are unable to bring it off. Rane finds that his wife has started a new relationship with another man who has also become a kind of step father to his son. The film portrays his reaction to this with painful ambiguity. He is reserved, and behaves well, but we sense a rage boiling just under the surface. Then later, he is robbed by a vicious gang and his wife and son killed. He takes up with a young "veteran groupie" who is infatuated with him and sets out on the road to find ... Read More

Rating:

- High class mayhem and revenge
I've loved this film since first seeing it in 1977 when its ending -- [...] -- made viewers and critics cringe with shock and horror. Violence plays a significant thematic and on-screen role in this flick about war, horror, remembrance and revenge.

Briefly submitted, William Devane and young Tommy Lee Jones (before he hit stardom) are returning Vietnam war prisoners of war. Devane, an officer in the Air Corps, had spent time in the famous Hanoi Hilton prison and has occasional flashbacks of his torture.

Returning war hero Devane -- whose wife took up with another guy during his lengthy absnece, adding real life drama and a soap operatic agenda to the movie -- receives a generous local gift during ceremonies in his Texas hometown. Later on, a bunch of good old boys come ... Read More

Rating:

- Little known classic
I saw this movie over 15 years ago and certain images from it are still burnt into my mind. I was reminded of it recently when reading an article about Quentin Tarantino, which mentioned how he hosts screenings of his favourite movies at his home for close friends. Many of these films are out of print and very rare. Guess which one was among them? That's right, buddy. Which tells you something about the quality of this little-known gem. Starring the hugely under-rated William Devane, Rolling Thunder is an awesome revenge flick that will satisfy anyone with a fascination for sadistic violence. That being said, it ain't no gore-fest, rather the violence is portrayed from a psychological point of view, and the film is remarkably restrained, as is Devane's performance (Al Pacino, take note). I just ... Read More

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