Thunder Mountain | |
Director: | Lew Landers |
Producer: | Herman Schlom |
Based On: | To the Last Man by Zane Grey |
Starring: | Tim Holt Martha Hyer |
Music: | Paul Sawtell |
Cinematography: | Jack MacKenzie |
Editing: | Philip Martin |
Distributor: | RKO Radio Pictures |
Runtime: | 60 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $177,000 |
Gross: | $351,000 |
Thunder Mountain is a 1947 American Western film directed by Lew Landers and starring Tim Holt and Martha Hyer. It was the first of Holt's 29 post war Western star vehicles[1] and the first in a series of Zane Grey adaptations he made for RKO.[2] It was also the first film of his written by Norman Houston who would go on to write 19 more for the star.[3]
The film began production as To the Last Man but the studio had trouble clearing the title because of a proposed Liberty Films project called The Last Man, so they used the title of the 1935 Zane Grey novel.[4]
A cowboy fights against crooks trying to control his land.
Filming began in October 1946.[5]
The film was made for a relatively high budget for a B Western. This was partly responsible for it making a profit of only $17,000.[3]