Thunder in the Pines

Thunder in the Pines is a 1948 American comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Edwards (a pseudonym for Robert Gordon) and starring George Reeves and Ralph Byrd. The film was shot in Sepiatone. It was executive produced by Robert L. Lippert.

Thunder in the Pines
Directed by	Robert Edwards (pseudonym for Robert Gordon)
Written by	Maurice Tombragel
Based on	story by Jo Pagano
Produced by	William Stephens executive Robert L. Lippert
Starring	George Reeves
Music by	Raoul Kraushaar Lucien Cailliet
Production company	Lippert Pictures
Distributed by	Screen Guild Productions
Release date	November 11, 1948 (1948-11-11)
Running time	61 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

Production

Reeves and Byrd and producer William Stephens had just made Jungle Goddess for Lippert and were signed for this follow up, originally called Green Gold. It was reported the film would be the first of 12 movies Stephens would make for Lippert "which is a hearty assignment for a moviemaker but apparently Stephens has a formula for production", according to the Los Angeles Times.^[1]

Filming started in early September, 1948,^[2] at Nassour Studios.^[3]

Inspired by Jungle Goddess, producer William Stephens announced he wanted to make four films a year starring Reeves and Byrd as a "Captain Flagg-Sergeant Quirt sort of team", starting with this one. The second one would be Banana Boat by John Wilste. (Stephens was also going to make Three Alarm Fire by Arthur Caesar.)^[2] However conditions to film background scenes in South America, where Banana Fleet was set, were not ideal so instead Stephens made Hell on Wheels (which became Highway 13, also based on a story by Wilste).^[4] Neither Reeves nor Byrd starred in that film.