Thunder Below (1932)

Name: Thunder Below
Director: Richard Wallace
Genre: Drama
Released: 1932-06-17
Duration: 1 h 6 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Bickford, Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette

Drama

Director: Richard Wallace

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Bickford, Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette

6.1

Runtime66 min

RatingNR

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Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis, and Ken urges her to return to Walt.

Critical Reception & Ratings

Thunder Below (1932) received a middling critical response, with an IMDb rating of 6.1/10 indicating a mixed audience reception. The film, directed by Richard Wallace, is a drama about an unhappy wife in an oil rigger's household who becomes entangled in a love triangle.

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Fans of classic Hollywood drama will find much to appreciate in the 1932 film 'Thunder Below', directed by Richard Wallace. The compelling performances from leads Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Bickford anchor a story of love, betrayal, and moral dilemmas set against the backdrop of an oil field in Central America.

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Thunder Below is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Richard Wallace, written by Sidney Buchman and Josephine Lovett, and starring Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Bickford, Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Forbes and Leslie Fenton. It was released on June 17, 1932, by Paramount Pictures.