''Thunder Over Arizona'' is a 1956 American
Western
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film directed by
Joseph Kane
Jasper Joseph Inman Kane (March 19, 1894, San Diego – August 25, 1975, Santa Monica, California) was an American film director, film producer, film editor and screenwriter. He is best known for his extensive directorship and focus on Western fi ...
, written by
Sloan Nibley
Alexander Sloan Nibley (June 23, 1908 – April 3, 1990) was an American screenwriter. He was the older brother of famed Latter Day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley.
Career
Born in Portland, Oregon to Alexander ("El") and Agnes "Sloanie" Nibley, Nibl ...
, and starring
Skip Homeier
George Vincent Homeier (October 5, 1930 – June 25, 2017), known professionally as Skip Homeier, was an American actor who started his career at the age of eleven and became a child star.
Career Child actor
Homeier was born in Chicago, Illino ...
,
Kristine Miller
Kristine Miller (born Jacqueline Olivia Eskesen, June 13, 1925 – 2015) was an American film actress, best-remembered for her appearances in film noir and Westerns. A discovery of Paramount producer Hal Wallis, she appeared in ''I Walk Al ...
,
George Macready
George Peabody Macready Jr. (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973) was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains.
Early life
Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 29, 1899. He graduated ...
,
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford (born Samuel Grundy Jones; 12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American vaudevillian, stage performer and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-face ...
,
Nacho Galindo and
Gregory Walcott
Gregory Walcott (born Bernard Wasdon Mattox, January 13, 1928 – March 20, 2015) was an American television and film actor. Although he had roles in many Hollywood films and television series, he is perhaps best known for having appeared in th ...
. It was released on August 4, 1956, by
Republic Pictures
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.
The film was shot in
Trucolor
Trucolor was a Color motion picture film, color motion picture process used and owned by the Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures. It was introduced as a replacement for Consolidated's own Magnacolor process.
Republic used T ...
and
Naturama
Naturama was a widescreen movie technique used by Republic Pictures, during the 1950s.
Films produced in ''Naturama'' format
*'' The Maverick Queen'' (1956)
*''Juvenile Jungle'' (1956)
*''Lisbon'' (1956)
*''Accused of Murder'' (1956)
*''Thunder ...
.
Plot
Colourful western about a crooked landowner.
Cast
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Skip Homeier
George Vincent Homeier (October 5, 1930 – June 25, 2017), known professionally as Skip Homeier, was an American actor who started his career at the age of eleven and became a child star.
Career Child actor
Homeier was born in Chicago, Illino ...
as Tim Mallory
*
Kristine Miller
Kristine Miller (born Jacqueline Olivia Eskesen, June 13, 1925 – 2015) was an American film actress, best-remembered for her appearances in film noir and Westerns. A discovery of Paramount producer Hal Wallis, she appeared in ''I Walk Al ...
as Fay Warren
*
George Macready
George Peabody Macready Jr. (August 29, 1899 – July 2, 1973) was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains.
Early life
Macready was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 29, 1899. He graduated ...
as Mayor Ervin Plummer
*
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford (born Samuel Grundy Jones; 12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American vaudevillian, stage performer and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-face ...
as Hal Stiles
*
Nacho Galindo as Pancho Gutierrez
*
Gregory Walcott
Gregory Walcott (born Bernard Wasdon Mattox, January 13, 1928 – March 20, 2015) was an American television and film actor. Although he had roles in many Hollywood films and television series, he is perhaps best known for having appeared in th ...
as Mark Warren
*
Jack Elam
William Scott "Jack" Elam (November 13, 1920 – October 20, 2003) was an American film and television actor best known for his numerous roles as villains in Western films and, later in his career, comedies (sometimes spoofing his villainou ...
as Deputy Slats Callahan
*
George Keymas
George Keymas (November 18, 1925 – January 17, 2008) was an American film actor, film and television actor.Martin p.68
Keymas graduated from Springfield (Ohio) High School.
Keymas began his Hollywood career in 1950, mainly in Westerns. His f ...
as Harvard 'Shotgun' Kelly
*
John Doucette
John Arthur Doucette (January 21, 1921 – August 16, 1994) was an American character actor who performed in more than 280 film and television productions between 1941 and 1987. A man of stocky build who possessed a deep, rich voice, he ...
as Deputy Rand
*
John Compton
Sir John George Melvin Compton, (29 April 1925 – 7 September 2007) was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first Prime Minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, Compton ser ...
as Tab Warren
*Robert Swan as Jud Warren
*
Julian Rivero
Julian Rivero (July 25, 1890 – February 24, 1976) was an American actor whose career spanned seven decades. He made his film debut in the 1923 silent melodrama, ''The Bright Shawl'', which starred Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Gish, William Powe ...
as Padre Ortega
*
Francis McDonald
Francis McDonald (August 22, 1891 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor whose career spanned 52 years.
Early years
Born on August 22, 1891, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, McDonald was the son of John Francis McDonald and Catherine Ashlu ...
as Pliny Warren
References
External links
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1956 films
American Western (genre) films
1956 Western (genre) films
Republic Pictures films
Films directed by Joseph Kane
Trucolor films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
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