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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Friday, November 14, 2008

And so begins several days of vintage images from this film. Up first is this absolutely rare and classic publicity image from Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1972). Give yourself 2 billion cinephile points if you can name all actors and the name of the lone actress in this still.

Welcome Home, Soldier Boys was directed by Richard Compton, who might be better known for having directed Macon County Line and Return to Macon County. The screenplay was from none other than Guerdon Trueblood who is perhaps best known for directing The Candy Snatchers. It has a fantastic cast and of the films that dealt with Vietnam and that came from the 70’s remains to this day one of the more underrated and under seen true gems. I wouldn’t at all call it necessarily like or similar to Rolling Thunder, but if you liked that film, then there is a real good chance you will also love Welcome Home, Soldier Boys!

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One more image of Linda Haynes and William Devane to start your week out proper and right. Seems like I heard rumblings of a Blu-Ray version of this movie in the near future…

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LINDA HAYNES as Linda and WILLIAM DEVANE as Major Charles Rane.

Related Coverage:
::: Heywood Gould on ROLLING THUNDER - Weird Wednesday
::: Previous Movie Wallpaper (Cinema is Dope)
::: 3 Current Pictures of Linda Haynes

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Stop the presses, Linda Haynes has resurfaced! Very quietly on her IMDb listing (view here), three new pictures of her have appeared only days ago. Wow! She still certainly still looks great!!! I imagine if we can ever figure out where she is she will surely be invited on down for some screenings of her films at the Alamo Drafthouse where Rolling Thunder is still shown ever so often.

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WILLIAM DEVANE as Major Charles Rane and LINDA HAYNES as Linda, the girl who tries to help him find the killers of his wife and son.

Related Coverage:
::: Heywood Gould on ROLLING THUNDER - Weird Wednesday
::: Previous Movie Wallpaper (Cinema is Dope)

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WILLIAM DEVANE is tortured by LUKE ASKEW and PETE ORTEGA.

The scene that sets up the ensuing revenge in this great criminally under seen film. That is quite a lot of blood curdling scream action going on by William Devane as Major Charles Rane.

Related Coverage:
::: Heywood Gould on ROLLING THUNDER - Weird Wednesday

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Sunday, August 17, 2008

I should definitely credit Lars for setting me off on this quest to re-find this amazing image from one of my all-time favorites, Rolling Thunder. The last time I used my 30+ batch of stills was helping out some of the MadMovies guys for a piece they were doing on Paul Schrader. Unfortunately since that time my collection of collected memorabilia got split up. I’ve now come across the missing portions of my collection and will at last be getting up my entire selection of imagery up here (minus some of the giant sized lobbies I have).

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ENGINEERED REVENGE–William Devane as Major Charles Rane, a returning POW hero, loses an arm and the lives of his family to a bunch of thieves. Getting a hook to replace his missing member and building himself an arsenal, he sets out on a carefully planned trail of revenge in American International’s taut action-drama, “Rolling Thunder.”

Related Coverage:
::: Heywood Gould on ROLLING THUNDER - Weird Wednesday

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