Thunder Over the Plains

Name: Thunder Over the Plains
Genre: Western
Released: 1953-10-27
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 5.594
Cast: Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw, Henry Hull

THUNDER IN HIS HEART...LIGHTNING IN HIS HOLSTERS...

5.6 (16)1953-10-271h 22m

Western

Overview

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.