BB17-135 — THUNDER BAY
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YEAR: 1953
FILM STUDIO / PRODUCTION: Universal-International Pictures
TAGLINE: No tagline appears on this Australian Daybill
DIRECTOR: Anthony Mann
CAST: James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea, Marcia Henderson, Jay C. Flippen
SCREENPLAY: Gil Doud and John Michael Hayes
PRODUCER: Aaron Rosenberg
MUSIC: Frank Skinner
CINEMATOGRAPHY: William H. Daniels
GENRE: Adventure / Drama
FORMAT: Australian Daybill

Thunder Bay is a 1953 Technicolor adventure drama starring James Stewart as an oil engineer whose plans to establish an offshore drilling operation bring him into conflict with a Louisiana fishing community. It was directed by Anthony Mann during his celebrated run of collaborations with Stewart.

POSTER DESIGN FEATURES: Strikingly minimalist Australian Daybill printed almost entirely in turquoise blue against white. The design features a small illustrated oil worker holding equipment above the Thunder Bay title, with the four principal stars presented in tall condensed lettering. Its restrained Australian artwork is dramatically different from the full-colour Reynold Brown artwork used on the American campaign.

COLLECTOR'S NOTE: Thunder Bay was one of the important James Stewart–Anthony Mann collaborations, made during the same period as their acclaimed Westerns. The film also has an interesting technical place in cinema history: its 1953 New York premiere was used by Universal-International to demonstrate its widescreen presentation and stereophonic sound system.

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