Paul Schrader is a filmmaker and screenwriter ... recognition as the writer of 1970s gems like Taxi Driver and Rolling Thunder, before stepping into the director's chair himself with 1978's ...

Rolling Thunder’s ultra-violence and ultra-weirdness saw it shabbily treated. Producers 20th Century Fox demanded Schrader’s original script toned down, then dumped the movie anyway ...

Former POW, Major Charles Rane, comes back from the Vietnam war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero. Some greedy thugs decide that they want to steal a number ...

Bobby Bank/Getty Linda Haynes, an actress who appeared in several films including Rolling Thunder ... my favorite female character in a Paul Schrader movie. She has that look that Ava Gardner ...