Street Machine

THUNDER RUN 1986

FTER chucking in life on the road to purchase a struggling cobalt mine, ex-truckie Charlie Morrison (Forrest Tucker) is starting to feel the pinch financially, and fears that the retirement plans for himself and his ever-loving wife Maggie (Marilyn O’Connor) are slipping away. However, an old military friend, George Adams

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