Captain Thunderbolt (film)


Captain Thunderbolt is a 1953 Australian action film from director Cecil Holmes about the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt. It was one of the few allAustralian films of the 1950s.

Thunderbolt is tracked by the evil Sergeant Mannix who undertakes gunfights with the bushranger at a dance, then at a rocky outcrop, only to discover that he has killed Alan Blake instead. Mannix passes off Blakes body as Thunderbolt, enabling the bushranger to escape. The legend grows that Thunderbolt did not die.The movie was shot in early 1951 on location in New England, New South Wales, and at the Royal National Park in Sydney, with studio work done in Supreme Sound System in North Sydney. The woolshed dance sequence was shot at a Pyrmont woolstore. One of Thunderbolts robbery victims was played by Kathleen Drummond, daughter of the thenlocal MP David Drummond. ........

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