Thunderbolt

June. 20,1929      NR
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

George Bancroft as  Thunderbolt Jim Lang
Fay Wray as  Ritzy
Richard Arlen as  Bob Moran
Tully Marshall as  Warden
Eugenie Besserer as  Mrs. Moran
Fred Kohler as  'Bad Al' Friedberg
Robert Elliott as  Prison chaplain
E.H. Calvert as  Dist. Atty. McKay
George Irving as  Mr. Corwin
Mike Donlin as  Kentucky Sampson

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