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6 February 1978 (Sweden)
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Major Charles Rane Is Coming Home To War! more
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Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero...
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Cocktail Creator Honoured On Movie's 20th Birthday
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'Inglourious Basterds': Playing spot the Tarantino reference
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(From WENN. 21 October 2009, 1:26 AM, PDT)
'Inglourious Basterds': Playing spot the Tarantino reference
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The Seventies wins again!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | William Devane | ... | Major Charles Rane |
 | Tommy Lee Jones | ... | Johnny Vohden |
 | Linda Haynes | ... | Linda Forchet |
 | James Best | ... | Texan |
 | Dabney Coleman | ... | Maxwell |
 | Lisa Blake Richards | ... | Janet (as Lisa Richards) |
| Luke Askew | ... | Automatic Slim |
| Lawrason Driscoll | ... | Cliff |
| James Victor | ... | Lopez |
| Cassie Yates | ... | Candy |
| Jordan Gerler | ... | Mark |
| Jane Abbott | ... | Sister |
| Jerry Brown | ... | Patrolman 1 |
| Jacque Burandt | ... | Bebe |
| Anthony Castillo | ... | Street Urchin |
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95 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:R |
Iceland:16 |
Australia:MA (TV rating) |
Netherlands:16 |
France:-12 (re-rating) |
Finland:(Banned) |
France:-16 |
Norway:16 (video rating) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16 |
Norway:(Banned) (1982-2003) (cinema release)
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Quentin Tarantino named his distributing company, Rolling Thunder Pictures, after this film. Rolling Thunder Pictures released B-movies, cult classics, independent films, exploitation movies, and foreign films. The company went under due to poor sales.
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Continuity: While Major Rane is in a bar with his admirer Linda, he is served a glass of beer. While talking with Linda, he takes only one sip, then decides to leave. But when he stands up, his glass can be seen to be almost half empty.
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Johnny: Major, I sure do hate to face all them people.
Major Charles Rane: Then put your glasses on, John.
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Johnny: Major, I sure do hate to face all them people.
Major Charles Rane: Then put your glasses on, John.
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Featured in Hollywood Vietnam (2005) (TV)
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San Antone
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'Rolling Thunder' epitomizes to me what is great about 1970s movies. Just imagine this one remade today! It'd be a John Woo-esque shoot 'em up "action" blockbuster with slo mo explosions and a "hip" techno soundtrack! But we have here is an intelligent, well written (by Paul Shrader) and acted study of alienation AND a great revenge thriller as well. You can have your cake and eat it too! Something Hollywood seems to have forgotten...
Devane is superb as the Vietnam Vet who regards himself as already dead. He returns to a heroes welcome, a new car and ready cash, but finds it impossible to put his life back together. Tragedy strikes and he does the only thing he can do - seek revenge.
'Rolling Thunder' is often unfairly tagged a "vigilante movie" which brings 'Death Wish' to mind, when it really has more in common with another 1970s classic of obsession and violence, Peckinpah's 'Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia'. 'Rolling Thunder' isn't as great as that, and suffers from a few dead spots in the second half, but make no mistake, this is a superior thriller that wipes the floor with 99% of Hollywood's current output.