Stars: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, Burton Gilliam, Jack Dodson

Director: Michael Cimino

Summary: The story of four men who scheme to rob an armoured car.

Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in Michael Cimino's brilliant directorial debut. This well-written film, featuring strong performances, is about a complex caper in which Bridges plays a young drifter who teams up with an ex-con (Eastwood) and his former partners in crime to restage a difficult safecracking heist. Conveyed in a tone that mixes dramatic and comic elements, the film is a rich blend of engaging characters and action.

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Jeff Bridges actually corralled an Oscar nomination for his spirited, oddball performance in the genre-crime story Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, directed by first-timer Michael Cimino who (a short two films later) would bring down a studio with Heaven's Gate. Clint Eastwood plays a bank robber par excellencewith a flair for explosives who is being hunted by his former partners, who think he has their loot from their last job. Bridges is his eager apprentice and sidekick, who helps him escape; when Eastwood finally makes peace with his hunters, Bridges convinces them to try a daring robbery--but things inevitably go awry. The relationship between Eastwood and Bridges is both funny and touching in this, one of Eastwood's better post-Dirty Harryefforts. --Marshall Fine

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Year:	1974
Release Date:	July 21, 2003
Runtime:	110 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	19838 D V D
Keywords:	Action, General, Thunderbolt, Lightfoot, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure