Plot Summary
Thunderbolt (1929) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1929 · 91 mins · English
- Directed by
- Josef von Sternberg
- Starring
- George Bancroft, Tully Marshall, Fay Wray, George Irving, Eugenie Besserer, Louise Beavers
In a grim prison, hardened criminal Thunderbolt (George Bancroft) faces execution. He is assigned a cellmate, Bob Moran (Richard Arlen), an innocent man falsely convicted who has unknowingly fallen for Thunderbolt’s girlfriend (Fay Wray). Thunderbolt plots to delay his own death long enough to eliminate Moran for daring to love his lover.
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