Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.
- Director: Michael Cimino
- Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama
- Runtime:115 minutes
Cast
Clint Eastwood : John “Thunderbolt” Doherty
Jeff Bridges : Lightfoot
Geoffrey Lewis : Eddie Goody
Catherine Bach : Melody
Gary Busey : Curly (as Garey Busey)
A young ne’er-do-well named Lightfoot steals a car. Independently, an assassin is preparing to kill a minister at his pulpit. The preacher escapes on foot after Lightfoot inadvertently rescues him by running over his pursuer.
The two men steal another car from a middle-aged couple at a gas station. Checking into a local hotel, Lightfoot picks up a couple of girls, one for each of them. Lightfoot learns that the minister is really a veteran bank robber known as Thunderbolt who was hiding with the guise of a clergyman following a successful looting of an armored car company.
Thunderbolt is the only member of the original gang who knows where the money is hidden. He and Lightfoot journey to Warsaw, Montana to retrieve the hidden loot from the old one-room schoolhouse where it was stashed. They discover a brand-new school in its place and conclude that the money must have been destroyed when the old school was demolished.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot unite forces with the men from the original gang, Eddie Goody and the menacing Red Leary. The mastermind of the old gang suffered a heart attack and died some years earlier, and Lightfoot inadvertently killed their electronics expert in his rescue of Thunderbolt. Lightfoot convinces the others to execute another heist — robbing the same company with a variation of the original plan.
The team returns to Warsaw, taking jobs as cover to make money while they plan the heist. Thunderbolt works as a welder, Lightfoot with a plumbing crew (borrowing the company van to haul supplies for the heist), and Eddie works as an ice cream salesman in a small truck. Red forces Eddie to surveil escape routes and residential neighborhoods. Read more
