Thunder Road
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Thunder Road is the title of a 1958 movie about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1950s. It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum. The film became a cult classic and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some southeastern markets through the 1970s and 1980s.
The film was based on a real incident in which a driver transporting moonshine crashed to his death on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee, near what is now West Town Mall.
Its theme song became a popular single record.
Lyrics & recording: Ballad of Thunder Road (http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/ballad_of_thunder_road.htm)
Thunder Road is also the title of a 1996 movie directed by Mix Ryan.
"Thunder Road" is also the lead song on Bruce Springsteen's 1975 album, Born to Run. Springsteen declared that he was somehow inspired from the movie even if he stated: "I never saw the movie, I only saw the poster".