Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Page #7

Synopsis: Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Michael Cimino
Production: MGM/UA Distribution
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
1974
115 min
1,242 Views


What the hell does the kid know, anyway?

Besides the Lamb is dead

and he wrecked Dunlop.

You don't need the Lamb anymore.

We do it exactly the same way.

You already did it once.

You might have something there.

The blind leading the blind. He's a kid.

He eats pistachio ice cream.

Jesus, you can lead a mule to water,

but you can't make him drink it.

That's a horse, not a mule. It's a horse.

I agree.

- Agree with what?

- With him.

Good grief.

Even if I did agree, which I don't,

what would we use

as a stake to operate with?

Well, we could all get jobs for a while.

Goody, you're better at asking questions

than you are at answering them.

And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb

and the leopard shall

lie down with the kid.

What's that? A poem?

No, it's a prayer.

200. Just 200 for the pot.

200?

Better than letting that piece of junk

run out on the highway.

We got Goody's car still.

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Where the hell

do you pick up these pearls of wisdom?

Books.

You mean you can actually read?

I read you loud and clear.

You better believe it.

All right, that's enough.

We got to keep it together now.

If you guys can't manage that, then I walk.

I'd like to hit him again

just for the hell of it.

Well, there it is.

That's it?

Sure doesn't look like much, does it?

Doesn't look like much?

You dopey son of a b*tch.

Goody, help me out...

Simple-minded son of a b*tch.

What did you get in my way for?

Love this guy.

We're gonna be

great friends, Red.

You forgot to give me

your Social Security number.

What?

I said that you forgot to give me

your Social Security number.

I've forgotten it.

Forgotten it?

Come on, nobody ever forgets their number.

Where you been working?

Uh, listen, I'm gonna need it for these.

So, if you can bring it to me tomorrow

I'd appreciate it.

Thanks. Hey.

Do you live near?

Man, I'm going crazy.

That drives me wild.

She just does something to me.

Why did you leave like that?

I couldn't wear that stuff. Too

humiliating. And you look ridiculous.

What's this?

That's my route.

Just follow the streets

and it takes you right back to the garage.

If you don't mind my saying,

I think you should get a job.

- Nobody asked you.

- All right, all right.

Read me the first street.

Left on 12th Avenue South to 9th Street,

right on North 3rd to the viaduct...

One at a time!

Left on 12th Avenue South.

You boys are being paid

by the hour!

Whoo!

We haven't got all day on this mother.

Got to move it.

Baby, baby

Baby, down baby

Baby, baby

There's a kid now. Pull over.

It's my truck. I know what to do.

You're on the wrong street.

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Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino ( chi-MEE-noh; February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and author. Born in New York City, he graduated from Yale University in 1963 and began his career filming commercials. He moved to Los Angeles to take up screenwriting in 1971. After co-writing the script of Magnum Force and Silent Running he wrote the preliminary script Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Clint Eastwood read the script and sent it to his personal production company, which allowed Cimino to direct the film. After its success, Cimino co-wrote, directed, and produced the 1978 Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter. His next film, Heaven's Gate (1980), proved to be a financial failure. Cimino directed four movies after Heaven's Gate, but none were as successful as The Deer Hunter. more…

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