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Thunder Over The Plains is a 1953 American Western film directed by Andre de Toth and starring Randolph Scott with Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Henry Hull, Elisha Cook, Jr. and Fess Parker. It was Barker's first film after starring in five Tarzan pictures.
Thunder Over the Plains: Directed by André De Toth. With Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw. In Post-Bellum Texas, an army captain tries to keep the peace between overtaxed, impoverished farmers and greedy carpetbaggers.
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- Western
- André De Toth
Thunder Over the Plains (1953) sends Scott's Union Captain on a peacekeeping mission to Texas, where he finds dishonest carpetbaggers Elisha Cook Jr. and Hugh Sanders taking advantage of hard times after the Confederate defeat.
- Andre Detoth, Al Alleborn, John Prettyman
- Randolph Scott
May 16, 2016 · Thunder Over the Plains (1953) The setting: Texas, just after the Civil War. The land is under martial law and the carpetbaggers — H.L. Balfour and Joseph Standish — are getting rich by constantly raising taxes, then foreclosing on property when the landowners can’t keep up.
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Overview. Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people.
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Thunder Over The Plains is a 1953 western film directed by Andre DeToth and starring Randolph Scott. The tag line on the original movie poster was “A tornado of adventure from Warner Bros.” The supporting cast features Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Henry Hull, Elisha Cook, Jr. and Fess Parker.