Thunderbolt & Mucous

Mucous wrote:  Canadian TV was our HBO back in the day.  My greatest memory is watching Clint Eastwood tie a belt around a tree and rip his dislocated shoulder back into place.  You would think it would be the occasional tittie we saw but something about the raw pain of that moment stays with me.  Anyway, my question is three part:  A)  name the movie B)  name Clints costar and C)  (this is my real question)  How much would that shit hurt?

Philbony says:  Indeed.  Canadian TV was awesome!  Other than frequent extended commercial breaks, between midnight and 4 AM on any given Saturday / Sunday morning (think about it), the movies were great & otherwise uncut.  First place I saw "The Good the Bad & the Ugly" (which would run until 5 AM).

            

Channel 9 - CFTO out of Toronto and Channel 11 - CHCH from Hamilton were the best.  If you could bear all-French and had a strong antenna, Channel 25 - Toronto's CBLFT showed the most, uh, 'tittie'. But in a very dramatic, European, artistic way that captured the true essence of pure budding love between two convent schoolgirls.  I digress.

Your answers, mon friere:

a)  "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" - gem of a movie, with that 70's anti-hero root-for-the-bad-guys-who-really-are-pretty-good-after-all vibe.

Not a lot of people know it was written by Michael Cimino.  Clint liked the guy's pitch so much he let Cimino direct it as well.  Cimino went on to direct 'The Deer Hunter' and the box-office disaster 'Heaven's Gate'.  Right, Dr B.?

b)  This is a tricky question.  I assume you mean Jeff Bridges.  He played Lightfoot, Clint's young-buck partner in crime.  The team is looking for stolen bank money stashed in the wall of the old one-room schoolhouse from years earlier.

But JEESH!  This film's got George Kennedy as Clint's former partner and current nemesis. George utters the most memorable line of my youth while casing out a new mark while posed as an ice cream truck driver.  A kid comes over for a cone or maybe a push-up.  Kennedy is busy and irritated.  The kid gives him some grief & George replies: "Hey kid.  Fuck a duck!"  Hilarious.

George Lewis plays Kennedy's second banana.  This is before Lewis became Clint's - and Clyde's - second banana in "Every Which Way But Loose".  Clint always seemed to "pick up" actors and crewmen along his career and come back to them repeatedly (to his detriment with Sondra Locke).

Catherine Bach and Gary Busey were even in this flick!

c)  Dude, that would freakin' hurt a LOT.  So much so that Clint probably had to beg Chopra for some vicodin.

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Finally, to English Dave:  I haven't forgotten you.  Just busy today. You're answers are next - I promise.

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