Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Thunderbolt (1929)

Thunderbolt (1929) -- (Movie Clip) It's Only A Little Raid

Backstage at a Harlem night club Ritzy (Fay Wray) has just told her fugitive gangster boyfriend (George Bancroft, title character) she’s going straight and wants out, he’s more concerned that he might have a rival, until the cops show up, in Thunderbolt, 1929, directed by Josef von Sternberg.

Thunderbolt (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Don't You Try To Ritzy Me

Josef von Sternberg directs with camera movement constrained by early-talkie sound recording, brassy Ritzy (Fay Wray) not buckling under pressure from cop William L. Thorne, asking after her old gangster boyfriend and threatening her new one (Richard Arlen), in Thunderbolt, 1929.