One Ohio sheriff's editorial on the legacy of 'Thunder Road' and the sorry state of current crime ran today in the Cleveland Daily Banner.
"The story line of this movie romanticized the lives of those who today we would call less than honorable citizens...
In the movie the moonshiners were justified in their law-breaking because they were supposedly poor, humble folks who were victimized by the federal government. That same refrain is still being used by many criminals today. History tells us that these poor, underprivileged victims were finally put out of business by the dogged efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement."
Of course, putting anything on camera tends to glamorize it. No mention of Mitchum's own brush with the law.
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