Thunder Over the Plains

Movie

Western

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. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.

Date: 10/27/1953

Rating: 5.4

Cast: Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw, Henry Hull, Elisha Cook Jr., Hugh Sanders, Lane Chandler, James Brown, Fess Parker, Mark Dana, Trevor Bardette, John Cason, Art Felix, Charles Horvath, Cactus Mack, Earle Hodgins, Monte Montague, Kansas Moehring, Carol Henry, Bill Coontz, George Sowards, Ethan Laidlaw, Brick Sullivan, George Huggins, Lou Marcelle

Randolph Scott