{"id":77136,"date":"2021-10-13T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=77136"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:47:41","slug":"thunder-bay-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=77136","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Bay (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s oil out there; somebody&#8217;s got to get it!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Poster-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-77137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Poster-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Poster-672x1024.png 672w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Poster-84x128.png 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Poster-177x270.png 177w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Poster.png 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen an offshore oiling entrepreneur (Jimmy Stewart) and his friend (Dan Duryea) receive funding and support from an investor (Jay C. Flippen), they arrive in a Louisiana fishing town ready to employ its citizens &#8212; but a local patriarch (Antonio Moreno) is not happy about Duryea dating his daughter (Marcia Henderson), and Henderson&#8217;s sister (Joanne Dru) is cynical about outsiders interfering with their way of life.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthony Mann Films<\/li>\n<li>Dan Duryea Films<\/li>\n<li>Fishermen<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Stewart Films<\/li>\n<li>Joanne Dru Films<\/li>\n<li>Oil Drilling <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nJimmy Stewart&#8217;s fourth film with director Anthony Mann &#8212; after <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39997\"><em>Winchester &#8217;73<\/em> (1950)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39981\"><em>Bend of the River<\/em> (1952)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=39970\"><em>The Naked Spur<\/em> (1953)<\/a> &#8212; was this less engaging widescreen adventure flick. It takes place off the Gulf of Mexico, but otherwise follows the general themes of a western, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/93221\/thunder-bay#articles-reviews?articleId=99364\">&#8220;boats and oil standing in for horses and guns&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; or, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/reviews\/73949\/thunder-bay\/\">as Stuart Galbraith IV proposes in his review for DVD Talk<\/a>, miners and cattlemen replacing oilers and fishermen in an ongoing battle for land (water) use. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s especially challenging to relate to Stewart&#8217;s character given what we now know about the toxic outcome of mining the Earth&#8217;s resources; hearing him make speeches like the following to Dru, we can&#8217;t help cringing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Maybe you don&#8217;t know how oil was formed millions of years ago: it was formed by things dying and being held in the Earth. Well now, if I can reach down there, and bring up the results of all those millions of years, and make them work for the present and the future, then I&#8217;ve done something, haven&#8217;t I?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Stewart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Stewart-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Stewart-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Stewart-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Stewart-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Stewart-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Stewart-361x270.png 361w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Stewart.png 1361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Jimmy &#8212; you certainly are doing something, though we don&#8217;t blame you because you don&#8217;t yet understand the impact. <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the storyline is a rather standard melodrama of romantic entanglements: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Dru.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Dru-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Dru-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Dru-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Dru-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Dru-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Dru-360x270.png 360w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Dru.png 1357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; culture clashes, high hopes, and competing priorities, with a group of people at one point deciding to band together in a &#8220;Let&#8217;s put on a show!&#8221; type of endeavor (which conveniently leads to said &#8220;show&#8221; happening just in the nick of time). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Crew.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Crew-1024x765.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Crew-1024x765.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Crew-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Crew-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Crew-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Crew-361x270.png 361w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Crew.png 1345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This film will likely be of interest to fans of Mann&#8217;s work, but isn&#8217;t a must-see entry in his impressive oeuvre. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Daniels&#8217; cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Still-1024x779.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"487\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Still-1024x779.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Still-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Still-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Still-768x584.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Still-355x270.png 355w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Thunder-Bay-Still.png 1355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one unless you&#8217;re curious. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046425\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1953\/05\/21\/archives\/thunder-bay-shown-at-state-on-new-wide-curved-screen-desert-song-at.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/93221\/thunder-bay#articles-reviews?articleId=99364\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/reviews\/73949\/thunder-bay\/\">DVD Talk Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s oil out there; somebody&#8217;s got to get it!&#8221; Synopsis: When an offshore oiling entrepreneur (Jimmy Stewart) and his friend (Dan Duryea) receive funding and support from an investor (Jay C. Flippen), they arrive in a Louisiana fishing town ready to employ its citizens &#8212; but a local patriarch (Antonio Moreno) is not happy about Duryea dating his daughter (Marcia Henderson), and Henderson&#8217;s sister (Joanne Dru) is cynical about outsiders interfering with their way of life. 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