Thunder in the Valley is a 1947 American Technicolor drama film directed by Louis King and starring Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner and Edmund Gwenn. It is based on the 1898 novel Owd Bob by Alfred Ollivant, which has previously been adapted into a 1938 film of the same title. The film was produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox and cost a reported $1.9 million. It was released in Britain under the alternative title Bob, Son of Battle.
Synopsis
A story of the Scottish highlands about a crockerty old sheepherder, Adam MacAdam who loves his prize collie dog, but little else, not even his son David. But David, with the help of a neighbor's daughter, Maggie Moore, raises his own prize dog and beats out his father in a contest.
Cast
Lon McCallister as David MacAdam
Peggy Ann Garner as Maggie Moore
Edmund Gwenn as Adam MacAdam
Reginald Owen as James Moore
Charles Irwin as Long Kirby
Leyland Hodgson as Ferguson
Norma Varden as Lady Eleanor
J. Farrell MacDonald as McPherson - Innkeeper
John Rogers as MacKenzie
Houseley Stevenson as Angus MacIvor
Jean Prescott as Mrs. Elizabeth Moore
David Thursby as Samuel Thornton
Edgar Norton as Parson Leggy Hornbut
James Finlayson as Court Judge
Al Ferguson as Bailiff
Mae Marsh as Flower Vendor
Douglas Gerrard as Villager
Production
Parts of the film were shot in Duck Creek, Strawberry Valley, Strawberry Point, Kanab Canyon, Navajo Lake, and Blue Springs in Utah.