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Thunder Afloat is a 1939 World War I naval film starring Wallace Beery and Chester Morris. The movie was directed by George B. Seitz. The submarine sequences were shot with the cooperation of the U. S. Navy at Annapolis, Maryland and around the Coronado Islands off San Diego, California.
Thunder Afloat: Directed by George B. Seitz. With Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Virginia Grey, Douglass Dumbrille. In a New England port town, Pop Thorson and Rocky Blake are rival tugboat owners.
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- Romance, Drama, War
- George B. Seitz
- 1939-09-15
A bizarre WWI potboiler about an irascible New England shipping captain wrestling his way through duty with the Naval Reserve - which, the film's opening title tells us, actively hunted and sank German u-boats off the Atlantic coast - Thunder Afloat is a Wallace Beery vehicle top to bottom, which by 1939 meant that it was a small-budgeted, low ...
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In a New England port, Pop Thorson (Wallace Beery) and his daughter Susan (Virginia Grey) struggle to save their small tug boat. They are certain that it was sunk by rival Rocky Blake.
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Thunder Afloat (1939) ← Back to main. Cast 61. Wallace Beery. John Thorson Chester Morris 'Rocky' Blake Virginia Grey. Susan Thorson Douglass Dumbrille ...
