Thunderbolt

• 5.522 Crime
• 1929-06-20
• 85 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

George Bancroft (Thunderbolt Jim Lang) Fay Wray (Ritzy) Richard Arlen (Bob Moran) Tully Marshall (Warden) Eugenie Besserer (Mrs. Moran) James Spottswood ('Snapper' O'Shea) Fred Kohler ('Bad Al' Friedberg) Robert Elliott (Prison chaplain) E.H. Calvert (Dist. Atty. McKay) George Irving (Mr. Corwin)

Director:

Josef von Sternberg

Writer:

Herman J. Mankiewicz