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Title: Great "Sleeper" Movie With William Devane & Tommy Lee Jones
Post by: billt on July 13, 2010, 12:40:25 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cz30PElwkE&feature=related

"Rolling Thunder". If you come across this one in the "Bargain Bin" grab it! It stars William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones before they became big stars. They play Viet Nam vets who return home after years in a POW camp. They are changed men, and the world has changed around them. The plot is based on robbers who break into Devane's home and kill his soon to be ex wife and child. I won't tell anymore than that, but it's a really good movie that ends in one of the best gunfights on film. For some reason I've never seen it on TV.  Bill T.
Title: Re: Great "Sleeper" Movie With William Devane & Tommy Lee Jones
Post by: DonWorsham on July 13, 2010, 07:25:38 PM
I can only remember one scene. I'm sure you know the one.
Title: Re: Great "Sleeper" Movie With William Devane & Tommy Lee Jones
Post by: Ichiban on July 13, 2010, 09:14:42 PM
I can only remember one scene. I'm sure you know the one.

The one with the ubiquitous kitchen appliance?  That's about the only thing I remember of the movie, but it has been over thirty years since I have seen it.
Title: Re: Great "Sleeper" Movie With William Devane & Tommy Lee Jones
Post by: billt on July 14, 2010, 08:25:28 AM
I can only remember one scene. I'm sure you know the one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpMBqTeQiwY&feature=related

Wasn't the idiot who played the ringleader the same guy from "The Dukes Of Hazzard"?   Bill T.
Title: Re: Great "Sleeper" Movie With William Devane & Tommy Lee Jones
Post by: DonWorsham on July 14, 2010, 09:24:38 AM
I watched it on HULA last night. None of it was familiar except the one scene in the kitchen. There needs to be a sequel with the same surviving characters...30 years later...
Title: Re: Great "Sleeper" Movie With William Devane & Tommy Lee Jones
Post by: seeker_two on July 14, 2010, 11:17:12 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpMBqTeQiwY&feature=related

Wasn't the idiot who played the ringleader the same guy from "The Dukes Of Hazzard"?   Bill T.

Yep....Roscoe P. Coletrain.....aka James Best.....and he's got a long filmography...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078940/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078940/)
Title: Re: Great "Sleeper" Movie With William Devane & Tommy Lee Jones
Post by: billt on July 14, 2010, 01:46:26 PM
Yep....Roscoe P. Coletrain.....aka James Best.....and he's got a long filmography...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078940/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078940/)

I remember him as Burt Reynold's sidekick in his 70's action comedy "Hooper".   Bill T.