Thunder (1929)

Directed by

William Nigh

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man faces a series of dramatic events in his life. This is a silent melodrama with a synchronized musical score and sound effects.

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What happens

Thunder is a 1929 American synchronized sound melodrama film starring Lon Chaney and directed by William Nigh. The film has no audible dialogue but featured a synchronized musical score and sound effects. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric Sound System sound-on-film process. The soundtrack was also transferred to discs for those theatres that were wired with sound-on-disc sound systems. Thunder was Chaney's penultimate film appearance and his last film without audible dialogue. The majority of the picture portion of Thunder is now considered lost, with only a half a reel of the entire footage known to survive. The Vitaphone type sound discs are extant, however, and preserve the soundtrack of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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