Thunderbolt and Lightfoot Page #5

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
1,333 Views


You got to get that fat guy

before he reports the alarm.

You tie him up,

gag him and put him in the can.

People are used to him

being in the can for long periods of time.

And you leave the place neat. Understand?

Just like you found it.

Now, at 11:
36 Goody comes around back.

If you're not ready to go,

he goes without you.

You get in the car and you hit the floor.

You stay there, you don't talk.

You don't make any noise.

You don't move around till Goody tells you.

At 11:
39 Goody comes back to the vault.

Leary and I will be there with the money.

If we're not, you just keep right on going.

If we pull this whole thing off,

we should be able to make

the midnight movie at the drive-in.

Then what?

We watch the show.

Then in the morning we split the money up

and go our separate ways.

Here's a watch.

You're gonna need a watch now.

Hey, Billy. Don't forget to shave.

Tweet tweet.

...will Charlie Johnson,

please, in the blue Chevy,

license plate 74. Is he here?

Three guys in the back, "Huh?"

I'm not gonna say it again, lady.

I'm warning you now.

How do you see yourself?

DON". Nude, usually.

Tell me, if you were

the producer of the show,

how would you produce Don Rickles?

DON". Trying to be pretty much what I am.

I mean doing what I do on the stage.

There's certain words that you use,

that I don't find offensive,

but you can't use it on television.

Keep quiet and nobody gets hurt.

Wake him up. Wake him up.

Jack. Jack!

What the hell's the matter with you?

Oh, no. Not again.

You just keep quiet and nobody gets hurt.

Understand?

Oh, my God! My child. Please!

She's just a baby.

Okay, but just keep it down.

I don't want my mother to hear me.

Oh, my God!

I was just getting started.

All right! I want the combination

of the outer guard doors.

Left series first.

Come on.

Uh, L-2,

R-3, R-7.

Uh, L-2, R-3,

R-5, R-7.

Again. Faster.

Uh, L-2, R-3, R-7,

L-2, R-3, R-5, R-7.

All right. One more time. Now really fast.

L-2, R-3, R-7,

L-2, R-3, R-s.

R-7.

All right. Now backwards. Quick.

Come on!

You're confusing me.

Say it fast

or you'll never say anything again.

R...

7, R-5, L-3...

NO, R-31 L-z!

Uh, R-7, L-2, R-3, R-5, R-7.

What a way to go.

It's 11:
15.

You ready?

Right.

Murph, shake your ass up.

Come on, you son of a b*tch.

Oh, you sexy b*tch.

I'd even go out with you myself.

Oh! Sh*t!

When this is over, I'm gonna get that kid.

You'll have to come by me first.

Hi. Come on in.

Hi.

Fill it up with high-test.

Where the hell is he, anyway?

That's five.

Goody!

Goody!

Get some more.

No, let's go. Come on.

Hello, Red.

You did a good job.

Thanks. Oh, here's your watch back.

Keep it.

- You all right?

- Yeah, I'm okay.

But after all that running around,

I gotta go so bad I can't see straight.

I got weak kidneys.

Shut your mouth or you'll drown both of us.

All right, keep quiet back there now.

If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Yes, sure.

Do you think she heard that?

I can't help it. I'm dyin' back here.

Red-haired women are bad luck.

What's wrong?

Just stay calm, Red. So far, so good.

Yeah, it's good. Full of vitamin hay.

Try some.

Ow!

What do you think?

Is that the heat?

Here.

That's seven minutes the inside.

Nice work, Goody.

Seems there was another hook-up after all.

You mean everything I did was for nothing?

Seems that way, doesn't it?

Oh, Christ!

Come on, keep your lid on now, Louise.

Goddamn! Hello, Murph.

Hey, what's with that light?

I know they're in here.

Are you sure about this, now?

I am sure. Sure as hell I am.

All right, if they're in here,

now we're gonna get 'em out.

Okay.

Son of a b*tch.

Red-haired women are bad luck, man.

What's the matter? What's wrong?

What's goin' on up there?

This is crazy. I must be outta my mind.

I told you not to listen

to that f***ing kid.

Take it easy, Red.

You go f*** yourself.

Will you shut up?

Shut the hell up will you, Leary.

I'm up to here with you, with all of ya.

I'm gettin' out

of this f***in' coffin right now.

Hey! Hey!

Stay outta sight.

Go, man, go.

Your attention, please. This is the police.

Repeat. This is the police.

Everyone stay in your car.

Oh! Uh-oh!

Goody's hit.

You're gonna be dead soon anyway.

Stop the car.

Oh, Leary...

Are you outta your mind?

Stop right now or you're dead meat,

and you know I mean that.

Now, give me that gun, real slow.

Now, get out this side, both of ya,

and don't bother openin' your mouth.

Christ, Red, this is dumb man.

This is dumb.

On the ground, both of you.

What happened to Goody?

I threw that little sucker out.

You prick!

Say somethin' funny now, smartass.

Wow.

Hey, kid. Hey.

Are you all right, kid?

Can you hear me?

You all right, boy?

Oh, man, I'm dizzy.

I'm dizzy.

Come on, you'll be all right.

Let's go.

Let's go, boy.

What happened?

Must've got a call on the car

and think it's us.

I need clothes.

We'll find Goody.

Dead man's clothes?

Come on.

We haven't got time to mess around.

Hey, you got the Silver Star.

You're the real hero, not Leary.

- Where'd you get that?

- Leary, it's true isn't it?

What difference does it make?

No difference I just wanted to know,

that's all.

Alarms. Alarms!

That's a real pisser!

Jesus Christ.

My God...

Okay, boys, this is where I turn off.

Unless you wanna see Warsaw.

Thanks a lot, man.

Impossible.

What are you seeing?

The one-room

school house. There it is.

"Moved to this site July 4th, 1972."

They moved it.

What'd they move it for?

Who knows?

History.

History, damn it.

Do you think?

I don't know, but it do present

mind-boggling possibilities.

Sam,

look at this old kerosene lamp.

Just a minute. Let me get this.

Hi.

Hiya, fellas. How are ya?

It's a nice schoolhouse you have here.

Sure is.

Come on. We gotta go, honey. Come on.

Now, we don't want any trouble, fellas.

Okay?

Have the camera if you want.

It's worth something.

You can have them both. What do you say?

Huh?

I got a bit of money back here.

I can let you have, huh?

Even give you these car keys.

- Come on, hon.

- Don't shove me.

Get in the car. Get in the car.

Hey, do you think it's still there?

I don't know.

Only one way to find out, I guess.

Why don't you watch the door?

Okay dokey.

Lightfoot?

Lightfoot!

You all right, boy?

Yeah.

It's nothin'.

God, I must be gettin' tired or somethin'.

Lift up on it and then ease the screw out.

Turn it with your hand.

Oh! I got it.

Sorry. My arm went numb.

Wow!

Impossible.

Good luck now. Thanks again.

Hey, hey, hey!

Ride?

Where you headed?

See what's over the next mountain.

Why not?

I'll put on a little music.

Have a cigar.

Where the hell did these come from?

I've been saving them for a celebration.

After all, we won, didn't we?

I guess we did, for the time being.

No, we made it.

We made it.

Not bad.

You know... You know somethin'?

I don't think of us as criminals, you know?

I feel we accomplished something.

A good job.

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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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