Thunder Over Texas

{{short description|1934 film by Edgar George Ulmer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Thunder Over Texas | image = Thundertexpos.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Edgar G. Ulmer | producer = Arthur Alexander <br>Max Alexander | writer = Shirley Ulmer (story)<br>Eddie Granemann (screenplay) | narrator = | starring = See below | music = | cinematography = Harry Forbes | editing = George M. Merrick | studio = M & A Alexander Productions Inc. | distributor = Beacon Pictures | released = {{Film date|1934|10|18}} | runtime = 61 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Thunder Over Texas''''' is a 1934 American populist contemporary Western film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer under the alias Joen Warner (the name of Ulmer's previous wife)<ref>p, 231 Weaver, Tom ''Shirley Ulmer Interview'' in ''I Was a Monster Movie Maker: Conversations with 22 SF and Horror Filmmakers'' McFarland, 16 Jun 2001</ref> and produced by two nephews of Universal Pictures head Carl Laemmle, Arthur and Max Alexander's Poverty Row Beacon Productions. The film's story was written by Shirley Ulmer under the name of Sherle Castle. Shirley was then married to Max Alexander but would soon leave Max to marry Edgar with the result that Lammele blacklisted Ulmer from Hollywood.<ref>pp. 77-78 Isenberg, Noah ''Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins'' Univ of California Press, 9 Jan. 2014</ref> The film was shot in Kernville, California.

''Thunder Over Texas'' was the first of several Westerns produced by the Alexanders starring Guinn "Big Boy" Williams.<ref>p. 55 Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each'' McFarland, 1 Jan. 2005</ref>

==Plot== The film opens with an apparent bank robbery terminated when the driver of the alleged getaway car is fatally shot by a sniper. Inside the car is the late driver's daughter, Tiny Norton who is adopted by rancher Ted Wright and his Three Stooges type ranch hands, Tom, Dick and Harry, the "Three Radio Nuts" who spend their time impersonating radio stars. The robbery and assassination of Tiny's father was orchestrated by a cruel and corrupt banker in cahoots with a crooked sheriff.

==Cast== *Guinn "Big Boy" Williams ... Ted Wright *Marion Shilling ... Helen Mason *Helen Westcott ... Betty "Tiny" Norton *Philo McCullough ... Sheriff Tom Collier *Victor Potel ... Dick *Ben Corbett ... Tom *Tiny Skelton ... Harry *Claude Payton ... Bruce Laird *Robert McKenzie ... Judge Blake *Dick Botiller ... Gonzalez

==Quotes== "I'll get you for this!" - Sheriff Collier<br> "Don't let anything stop you but fear" - Ted Wright

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== External links == *{{IMDb title|id=0025891|title=Thunder Over Texas}}

Category:1934 films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films based on American novels Category:1934 Western (genre) films Category:American Western (genre) films Category:Films directed by Edgar G. Ulmer Category:1934 English-language films Category:1934 American films Category:English-language Western (genre) films