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May 10, 2024 · Runtime: 97 min. Director: Charles Vidor. Genre: Drama, War. Cast: Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer. Writer (s): Jo Swerling, George Tabori, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. Plot: In a remote region of post-independence India, the love of a blind British woman pricks the conscience of an arms dealer. IMDB rating: 6.3.
Thunder in the East is a 1952 American war film released by Paramount Pictures, and directed by Charles Vidor. It was based on the 1948 novel The Rage of the Vulture by Alan Moorehead; the book title was the working title of the film.
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It's set in the 1947 and what politically is about to happen (and the audience in 1952 knows this) is the big breakup of the new India into two countries, with Muslim Pakistan born in the north. So Ladd drops into this tiny province with a plane full of armaments.
Rent Thunder in the East on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. A pilot (Alan Ladd) runs guns to colonial India and falls in love with a British minister's blind daughter (Deborah Kerr).
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May 13, 2024 · ‘Thunder In The East’ Blu-Ray Review – Eastern Melodrama Is Stuck In The Past. By Dillon Gonzales. May 13, 2024. No Comments. Tumblr. Screen legends Alan Ladd (Lucky Jordan, Shane) and Deborah Kerr (From Here to Eternity, The King and I) give sterling performances in the romantic war drama, Thunder in the East.
Recommendations. Eight Iron Men. Flat Top. One Minute to Zero. Operation Secret. Retreat, Hell! Angels One Five. In a remote region of post-independence India, the love of a blind British woman...
Thunder in the East is one of the slowest, most gruesome distortions of Asian existence since Lost Horizon. Full Review | Jan 7, 2021. Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy) Esquire Magazine....
