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Rolling Thunder is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Flynn released in USA on 2 november 1977 with William Devane
Rolling Thunder (1977)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 2 november 1977
Length 1h35
Directed by John Flynn
OriginUSA
Themes Political films
Rating68%
Rolling Thunder is a 1977 film starring William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was directed by John Flynn. The screenplay was by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould.
Synopsis
In 1973, Major Charles Rane (William Devane) returns home to San Antonio with Master Sergeant Johnny Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones), and two other soldiers, after spending seven years as a POW in Hanoi. He finds a home very different from the one he left when he meets his wife Janet (Lisa Blake Richards), his son Mark (Jordan Gerler), and local policeman Cliff (Lawrason Driscoll), waiting to drive him home. Rane soon realizes that his son doesn't remember him, and that Cliff seems overly familiar with Janet and Mark. Janet admits that she has become engaged to Cliff and has no plans to break it off, despite still having feelings for Rane. Rane stoically accepts this, but privately reacts by self-imposing the same institutionalized daily regime he had in captivity.Actors
William Devane
(Major Charles Rane)
Tommy Lee Jones
(Johnny Vohden)
James Best
(Texan)
Linda Haynes
(Linda Forchet)
Dabney Coleman
(Maxwell)
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