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Come to a free screening of the cult classic Thunder Road which was filmed in Asheville and the surrounding area. Original cast member, actress Betsy Holt, will discuss her experiences during the production of the film. Ms. Holt played the wife of Troy Barrett, Treasury Agent (played by Gene Barry) in the 1958 film.The film will be shown at the Bee Tree Fire Station at 510 Bee Tree Road in Swannanoa. Free popcorn! Sponsored by the Swannanoa Friends of the Library and the Friends of Buncombe County Libraries. For more information, call 250-6486. Thunder Road is the title of a 1958 drama-crime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1950s. It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film and co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself. He also co-wrote (with Don Raye) the theme song, "The Ballad of Thunder Road". The film became a cult classic and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some Southeastern markets through the 1970s and 1980s. The film was based loosely on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have crashed to his death on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee somewhere between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road. Per Metro Pulse writer Jack Renfro, the incident occurred in 1952 and may have been witnessed by James Agee, who passed the story on to Mitchum. (Image provided by Wikipedia.)
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