Dark Mountain (1944)
RUGGED ACTION and THRILLS!
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.
- Date of release
- 1944-09-01
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 57m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- William Berke
Casting
- Robert Lowery — Don Bradley
- Ellen Drew — Kay Downey
- Regis Toomey — Steve Downey
- Eddie Quillan — Willie Dinsmire
- Elisha Cook Jr. — Whitey
- Ralph Dunn — Chief Sanford
- Walter Baldwin — Uncle Sam Bates
- Rose Plumer — Aunt Pattie Bates
- Virginia Sale — Aletha Bates
- Byron Foulger — Harvey Bates
- Johnny Fisher — Hunk, Henchman
- Alex Callam — Detective Dave Lewis
Interesting facts
Dark Mountain is a 1944 American film noir crime film directed by William Berke. It is also known as Thunderbolt and Thunder Mountain.
Production
The film was based on an original script called Thunder Mountain by Dean Franklin and Charles Royal. It bought by Pine-Thomas Productions in January 1944 as a vehicle for Chester Morris. Morris however went into a film at Columbia, The Adventure of Jim Burke and was replaced by Regis Toomey.
Dick Purcell died of a heart attack shortly before he was supposed to make the film. He was replaced by Carroll Nye who had made the short Soldiers of the Soil for Pine Thomas.
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