Thunderbolt

Year: 1929

Runtime: 91 mins

Language: English

Director: Josef von Sternberg

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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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