Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

(1974)

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"He has exactly seven minutes to get rich quick!"

The film is a well-written caper movie sporting some stunning landscapes and a fine core of performances (Bridges earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor). Young drifter Bridges hooks up with ex-thief Eastwood, who has been on the run from his former partners for several years because they believe he set them up and took off with the loot from a government vault they robbed in Montana. The two remaining members of his gang, Kennedy, and Lewis, are in pursuit of revenge and hot on Eastwood's tail. The thief, therefore, reluctantly strikes up a friendship with Bridges to escape. Eventually Kennedy and Lewis corner the pair and prepare to kill them. Eastwood convinces Kennedy he has no idea where the money is (it was hidden behind the blackboard of an old schoolhouse that no longer exists) and their lives are spared. With nothing better to do, Bridges convinces the group it should rob the same vault, the same way, all these years later because no one would suspect another attempt. After some elaborate planning, the four men successfully execute the robbery, but their getaway does not go as planned.

Listen as Clint Eastwood speaks candidly about his thoughts on this film.

• Jeff Bridges was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
• Director Michael Cimino has had a checkered career - his next film was The Deer Hunter, which won the Oscar for Best Film, but he then went on to make the disastrous Heaven's Gate, showing he hadn't learned from Clint's economic approach to film-making.

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