The Grindhouse
Film Festival presents a rare 35mm print of this existential 70's revenge masterpiece, for the film's 40th anniversary.
ROLLING THUNDER (1977):
Written by Paul Schrader around the same time he wrote TAXI DRIVER, this is one of the most underrated American films of the 1970's. William Devane stars as Major
Charles Rane, who returns from a long tortuous stay in a Vietnamese POW
camp to find his wife married to another man and his only son wary of a
father he doesn't know. Tommy Lee Jones co-stars as a shattered POW
survivor who finds it impossible to readjust to civilian life, and sees
Rane as the only man he can relate to. When a crew of thugs invade
Rane's home, mangle his hand in a garbage disposal, and kill his son;
Rane begins down a focused path of revenge. With a sharpened hook for a
hand and a duffel bag full of shotguns, he crosses the border to Mexico
with the only purpose he has left in his life.
35mm 70's revenge trailers before the movie.