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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
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.
Plot.
As a young ne'er-do-well, Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) steals a car. Elsewhere, an assassin attempts to shoot a preacher delivering a sermon at his pulpit. The preacher escapes on foot. Lightfoot, who happens to be driving by, inadvertently rescues the preacher by running over his pursuer and giving the
a professional skateboarder, breaking for a year to attend college at the University of Texas, Austin. McKay was also a cinephile and inspired by 70s-era existential movies like "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot","Cisco Pike", "Night Moves", "Some Came Running" and Charley Varrick. The films of Sam Peckinpah and particularly Monte Hellman's "Two-Lane Blacktop".
In 2003, McKay was cast in "Levelland," a film about coming of age in the flatlands of Texas. Several of its fictional characters