Well, at least this film's theme song has better lyrics, because if there's nothing else you can say about '50s ballads about a crime being committed and the Devil being somewhere in the works, then it's that they were all pretty much the same song, yet next to that, you can say that they did have some pretty good lyrics. I actually like the song just fine, but 55 years later, "The Ballad of Thunder Road" is starting to sound about as cheesy as Bruce Sprinsteen's "Thunder Road", and I know that when you say, "about as" when negatively comparing something, it doesn't quite sound as bad, but come on, this is Bruce Springsteen we're talking about, so you know that thing's corny, and yet, not quite as cheesy as some of his other songs. No, this film isn't so much cheesy, like I expected it to be, but just more along the lines of boring, yet at least it's not as cheesy certain parts in "The Night of the Hunter", let alone as cheesy as this film's theme song sounds nowadays. Hey, what's up with James Bond being a criminal and, for that matter, an American? Oh wait, that's "Thunderball" I get these two film mixed up, though "Thunderball" has aged a little more gracefully, seeing as how it was intentionally silly.
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