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Thunder Rock (Original title)
Date: 1942 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Roy Boulting

Synopsis: A foreign correspondent becomes a lighthouse keeper in despair at the outside world and lives a fantasy life until he finds the spirit to return.

Genres:
Fantasy, War

Subjects:
Lighthouses, World War II
Releases
Date: 1942Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 112 mins Length: 9928 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (39)
Production Company: Charter Film Productions, Produced by: John Boulting, Production Management: E.J. Holding, Assistant Director: Michael Johnson Jnr., [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Rolf Popp, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Bill Herlihy, Continuity: Phyllis Ross, [Assistant Continuity]: Regina Grant, Screen Play: Jeffrey Dell, Bernard Miles, [Screenplay]: Wolfgang Wilhelm, [Screenplay]: Anna Reiner, Leslie Arliss, By [Original Story]: Robert Ardrey, Director of Photography: Mutz Greenbaum, Camera Operator: Jack Hildyard, [Focus Puller]: Ray Sturgess, [Clapper Loader]: Sam Alexander, Alan Hume, [Stills]: Eugene H.E. Pizey, Special Effects: Tom Howard, Special Effects: Fred Ford, Edited by: Roy Boulting, Associate Editor: Cliff Boote, [Assistant Editor]: Geoffrey Gabriel, [Assistant Editor]: Eve Catchpole, Kathleen Wells, Art Director: Duncan Sutherland, [Assistant Art Director]: Elliot Scott, [Assistant Art Director]: R. Field-Smith, Tony Noble, Costumes by: Honoria Plesch, Music Composed and Arranged by: Hans May, [Sound] Recordist: J.C. Cook, [Sound Camera Operator]: Wally Day, [Boom Operator]: Percy Dayton, Made at: Denham Studios, D&P Studios
Cast (22)
Michael Redgrave (David Charleston), Barbara Mullen (Ellen Kirby), James Mason (Streeter), Lilli Palmer (Melanie Kurtz), Finlay Currie (Captain Joshua Stuart), Frederick Valk (Dr Stefan Kurtz), Sybilla Binder (Anne Marie Kurtz), Frederick Cooper (Ted Briggs), Jean Shepeard (Millie Briggs), Barry Morse (Robert), George Carney (Harry), Miles Malleson (chairman of directors), Bryan Herbert (Flanning), James Pirrie (Jim Sales, the new pilot), A.E. Matthews (Mr Kirby), Olive Sloane (woman director), Tommy Duggan, Tony Quinn (office clerk), Harold Anstruther (British consul), Alfred Sangster (director), Gerard Heinz ([Hans Harma]), Andrea Malandrinos ([Italian policeman])