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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Thunder Road about Chicagoland with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary.
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conversations.value: the author is from the Chicagoland area. His interests include biking, hiking, basketball, weight training and cultural pursuits.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Chicagoland with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary.. Start with the sentence 'Thunder Road (film): Korean War veteran Lucas Doolin (Robert Mitchum) works in the family moonshine business — delivering the illegal liquor his father distills to clandestine distribution points throughout the south in his souped-up hot rod'.
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conversations.value: Thunder Road (film): Korean War veteran Lucas Doolin (Robert Mitchum) works in the family moonshine business — delivering the illegal liquor his father distills to clandestine distribution points throughout the south in his souped-up hot rod.\nHowever, Lucas has more problems than evading theS.\nTreasury agents ("revenooers"), led by determined newcomer Troy Barrett (Gene Barry).\nLucas is concerned that his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum), who is also his mechanic, will be tempted into following in his footsteps and becoming a moonshine runner.\nA well-funded outside gangster, Carl Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), tries to gain control of the independent local moonshine producers and their distribution points, and is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way.\nThe stakes rise when an attempt by Kogan to kill Lucas results in the death of a government agent as well as another moonshine driver (Mitchell Ryan).\nIn a romantic subplot, Lucas becomes involved with nightclub singer Francie Wymore (Keely Smith).\nHe is unaware one of the neighbor girls, Roxanna Ledbetter (Sandra Knight), has a crush on him and fears for his life.\nWhen a series of government raids destroy their hidden stills, Lucas\'s father and the other local moonshines shut down production "for a spell" to let the government deal with Kogan in its own time, but Lucas is forced by circumstances and his own code of honor to make a final run.\nThe 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 between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road.\nPer 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.