Date night outside Cologne, Summer, 1939.
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Robert Mitchum’s–THUNDER ROAD–would become the U.S. drive-in staple twenty years later and the Third Reich would never know.
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Images: (Thunder Road) moviepostershoppe.com; (screen) smartinc.com;
(Atlantic Wall bunkers)Paul Virilio in metropolis.com; (autos) det.news.com;
(intermission shot and food pictures) drive-infilm.com (Speer structure) stanford.edu