I liked his answer to Gene Barry, the Revenue agent, in Thunder Road when Barry said “We have the bumper off your Ford’. Mitchum said “Well, give it BACK.”
LOL!!!
THUNDER ROAD: Outrunning the revenuers——the origins of Nascar.
Moonshine delivery boys got their cars souped up-—to beat the IRS’ers down midnight country roads.
So the moonshiners decided to have races on a dirt track....hundreds came out for the events...
.....which evolved into the “National Stock Car Racing Association......
.....NASCAR......