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Thunderbolt
From Paramount Pictures
George Bancroft making Love With the Determination of a Bull Dog! Fay Wray His Foil and Richard Arlen His Enemy
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A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
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Directed by Josef von Sternberg
George BancroftThunderbolt Jim Lang
Fay WrayRitzy
Richard ArlenBob Moran
Tully MarshallWarden
Eugenie BessererMrs. MoranJames Spottswood'Snapper' O'Shea
Fred Kohler'Bad Al' Friedberg
Robert ElliottPrison chaplain
E.H. CalvertDist. Atty. McKay
George IrvingMr. Corwin
Mike DonlinKentucky SampsonS.S. StewartConvictImages · 9
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CinemaSerfJun 6, 2022
If you can get past the really rather stilted production here - almost stage bound in it's presentation, this is quite an entertaining film that sees the authorities on the trail of the most wanted "Thunderbolt" (George Bancroft). He is elusive, though - and their only route to him might be through his ex-girfriend "Ritzie" (Fay Wray) - but she isn't playing ball for reasons of her own. It's only when "Thunderbolt" makes good on an earlier threat he made to her about seeing a… Read more
nyone else, that the police see some light. The performances are fine, not great but the writing is really quite good - plenty of quirky vernacular and it moves along well despite the frequent silent movie style direction and scene framing from Josef von Sternberg. There is also quite an enjoyable contribution from a blues ensemble and though certainly dated, this is still worth a watch almost 100 years later.