"Доңғалақ Күмбез: Фильмнің Тарихы мен Пікірлер"

1977 film directed by John Flynn
John Milius said Schrader wrote the movie for Milius to direct but Milius turned it down. "I didn't think I wanted to do something that dark at the time  Boy it was a good script, with wonderful stuff in it. Paul at his best." In the original script, Rane was a "a Texas trash racist who had become a war hero without ever having fired a gun", and the story ended in his death. Schrader's script was rewritten by Heywood Gould. It starred William Devane who director John Flynn says "back then they were priming  [him] to be a big film star". Other actors considered for the lead role were Joe Don Baker and David Carradine, but both declined upon reading the script. The preview audience did not react well to this. In his book, Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman characterized this as "the most violent sneak reaction of recent years  the audience actually got up and tried to physically abuse the studio personnel present among them." "The lobby looked like Guadalcanal", recalled producer Gordon. "Which, by the way, is a salesman's dream. "</blockquote>

Flynn says American International Pictures "distributed it, as is, without re cutting it. It made them a fortune." LA Weekly, Letterboxd, and The Grindhouse Database list this movie as belonging to the vetsploitation subgenre. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote in his review, "Flynn's crisp, laconic direction and evocative use of Southern Texas locations transform Rolling Thunder, now at area theaters, into a more distinctive exploitation movie than it deserves to be." Vincent Canby of The New York Times noted that "the movie has some good things, but in the way it has been directed by John Flynn it moves so easily and sort of foolishly toward its violent climax, that all the tension within the main character Charlie has long since escaped the film." A review in Variety noted, "Its excellent cast performs well, but not well enough; Paul Schrader's story is strong, but not strong enough; and the violence will be too much for some and not enough for others. In sum it neither rolls nor thunders, but with luck, it might just stumble on to a portion of the audience that hailed Schrader's Taxi Driver." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three stars out of four and wrote that "what I like about Rolling Thunder is not the predictable orgy of violence that concludes the picture, but what goes on before—the return of the veteran to his hometown and disjointed family. I liked its portrayal of Devane's state of mind. The emotional violence he suffers is more stunning than any physical torture." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times slammed the film as "one of the most revolting exploitation pictures to come along in some time" and called it "some kind of ultimate in cynical calculation. The whole numbing predicament of the POW is perceptively, credibly depicted—but only to set up the carnage that follows. Surely, the POWs don't deserve this kind of exploitation on the screen." Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has called Rolling Thunder one of his favorite films, naming it in his top ten in the 2012 Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll. Rolling Thunder Pictures, a company founded by Tarantino that briefly distributed reissues of cult films, was named after the film.

The film was released on Blu ray and DVD in the United Kingdom by STUDIOCANAL on January 30, 2012. The film was released on Manufactured On Demand DVD by MGM in January 2011. The film was released on Blu ray in the United States by Shout! Factory on May 28, 2013.