Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Directed by Michael Cimino
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
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And now here they are together in The Nice Guys, riffing on the old Clint Eastwood/ Jeff Bridges, hard-nut/soft-shell routine from Thunderbolt and Lightfoot .
Over the next decade, films like “The Sting” and “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” became a new kind of bromantic caper, exciting and even dramatic in a loose, joshing, nimble-spirited way.
It’s Heaven’s Gate and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
But it’s also a lot of fun and a throwback to the “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” era of quirky American crime caper films grounded in genuine economic hardship.
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"Hell or High Water" harks back to 1970s elegies for the Old West: "The Last Picture Show," "Fat City," "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot."
It's much more even than a very fine entry in the long line of outlaw road movies, going back through Bonnie and Clyde and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot .
Bridges has been playing older figures of authority for so long that it's easy to forget how disarming he can be with that smile and charm reminiscent of his more boyish smooth talker work from the '70s like, Lightfoot in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino, 1974) or Duane in The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971).