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Thunder Afloat is a american film of genre Drama directed by George B. Seitz released in USA on 15 september 1939 with Wallace Beery

Thunder Afloat (1939)

Thunder Afloat
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Released in USA 15 september 1939
Length 1h35
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Action,    Romance
Rating62% 3.1427053.1427053.1427053.1427053.142705

Thunder Afloat is a 1939 World War I naval film starring Wallace Beery and Chester Morris. The movie was directed by George B. Seitz.

The submarine sequences were shot with the cooperation of the U. S. Navy at Annapolis, Maryland and around the Coronado Islands off San Diego, California.



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Synopsis

In a New England port town, Pop Thorson (Wallace Beery) and Rocky Blake (Chester Morris) are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it to keep Thorson from winning a lucrative contract to move barges of military supplies. Thorson is a widower who built his own tugboat and lives on it with his adult daughter Susan (Virginia Grey). She loves her father, but also likes Blake (who denies the sabotage) and does not want the two men to fight.

Actors

Wallace Beery

(John Thorson)Chester Morris

('Rocky' Blake)Douglass Dumbrille

(District Commander)Virginia Grey

(Susan Thorson)John Qualen

(Milo)
And :
Leon Ames
Carl Esmond
Clem Bevans
Howard C. Hickman
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