Thunderbolt and lightfoot rabbit scene

  • Classic seventies 'buddy' movie with Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges - this is my favourite sequence and a good reason not to accept lifts.
  • '73 Plymouth Fury III in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,'74 also starring, Clint Eastwood & Jeff Bridges---Hillbilly with rabbits scene.
  • I believe this scene was thrown in to show how unpredictable and spontaneous situations become when traveling on the road, especially cross-.

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    TopBilled:

    I am not familiar with all of Clint Eastwood’s films of the 1970s. I found THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT a few months ago on Starz streaming. There was no picture for it on the Starz movies page. So I clicked on it thinking it was going to be a western, since it seemed like a good title for a western. Boy was I wrong!

    Instead THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT is an action/road comedy with crime elements. Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges play the title characters.

    It was made in 1973 and released in 1974 bygd United Artists (the last bio Eastwood ever did for the independent studio). Supposedly the character names and title come from the Universal adventure film CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT (1955) starring Rock Hudson. (Hudson’s costar Jeff Morrow played Thunderbolt.) It was director Michael Cimino’s favorite film as a kid.

    While referencing classic adventures of yesteryear, Cimino likes to connect all his characters with the sky and with the earth. He does this a lot in

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    Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

    In writer/director Michael Cimino's debut film starring Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood in early roles:

    • the astonishing 'rabbit shooting' sequence in which a deranged and lunatic hillbilly (Bill McKinney), crazed by his leaking exhaust pipe and carbon monoxide gas, emptied his trunk full of white rabbits into a field, and then began wildly shooting at them with a shotgun until hitchhiker John "Thunderbolt" Doherty (Clint Eastwood) knocked him out and then stated: "I don't know what the hell we're gonna do with all these rabbits?"

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    Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

    1974 film directed by Michael Cimino

    Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 American crime comedy film written and directed by Michael Cimino and starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis.[7] The film follows John "Thunderbolt" Doherty, a disguised preacher who is almost killed before being unintentionally rescued by a young car thief named "Lightfoot", who partners with him in a series of thefts. It is soon discovered that "Thunderbolt" is a fugitive bank robber who is being hunted by his former gang.

    Filmed in various locations of Montana, it was produced by Eastwood's production company, Malpaso Productions, and released through United Artists. The film grossed $25 million at the box office[6] on a budget of between $2.2[5] or $4 million,[4] and was positively received by critics.

    Plot

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    A young ne'er-do-well, Lightfoot, steals a car. Elsewhere, an assassin attempts to