Man in the Shadow (1957 American film) Sadler's badge to him. The movie was originally called "Pay the Devil". It was Jeff Chandler's last film under his exclusive deal with Universal. The part of Virgil Renchler was originally going to be played by Robert Middleton but agents from the William Morris Agency suggested Orson Welles, who badly needed the money to pay back taxes. It was his first Western. During the course of making the film, Welles rewrote sections of the script. He also formed a relationship with Albert Zugsmith who produced Welles' next movie as director, "Touch of Evil" (1958). Filming started October 1956. Director Jack
Thunder Road (1958 film) Thunder Road (1958 film) Thunder Road is a black and white 1958 drama–crime film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film and co-wrote the screenplay. With Don Raye, Mitchum co-wrote the theme song, "The Ballad of Thunder Road." The film features Gene Barry and Jacques Aubuchon. The film's plot concerns running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the late 1950s. "Thunder Road" became a cult classic and continued to play at drive-in movie theaters in some southeastern states through the 1970s and 1980s. Korean War veteran Lucas Doolin (Robert Mitchum) works