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Thunderbolt (1929)
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Cast
as Thunderbolt Jim Lang
as Bob Morgan
as Ritzy
as Warden
as Mrs. Morgan

as `Snapper' O'Shea
as `Bad Al' Friedberg

as Prison Chaplain

as District Attorney McKay

as Mr. Corwin, Bank Officer
as Kentucky Sampson

as Convict

as Police Inspector

as The dog
Critic Reviews for Thunderbolt
All Critics (10) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (3) | DVD (1)
With streaks of shadow and jolting contrasts of light to match the film's eccentric lurches between violence, comedy, and onscreen musical performance... Sternberg evokes a nerve-jangling city of macabre menace.

A museum piece, then, for Sternberg completists only.

There is nothing edifying about this production, and it is hardly an entertainment.

This one is foolish.

Probably the most underrated of Josef von Sternberg's sound pictures.
Thunderbolt was Josef von Sternberg's first talkie (a silent version was also produced) and nabbed George Bancroft his only Best Actor Oscar nomination.
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