the drive. While the truck is still moving, Kay and the dog jump out through a door, and Willie flattens the tires with his gun. The truck goes off the road and explodes with Steve still in it. Kay throws herself in Don's arms and they are reunited. Cast Robert Lowery as Don Bradley Ellen Drew as Kay Downey Regis Toomey as Steve Downey Eddie Quillan as Willie Dinsmire Elisha Cook Jr. as Whitey Ralph Dunn as Chief Sanford Walter Baldwin as Uncle Sam Bates Rose Plumer as Aunt Pattie Bates Virginia Sale as Aletha Bates Byron Foulger as Harvey Bates Johnny Fisher as Hunk, Henchman Alex Callam as Detective Dave Lewis Eddie Kane as Waiter Angelo Desfis as Bookkeeper Production The film was based on an original script called Thunder Mountain by Dean Franklin and Charles Royal. It bought by Pine-Thomas Productions in January 1944 as a vehicle for Chester Morris. Morris however went into a film at Columbia, The Adventure of Jim Burke and was replaced by Regis Toomey. Helen Walker was going to play the female lead but she went into Abroad with Two Yanks and was replaced by Ellen Drew.It was Ellen Drew's first film for a while. Dick Purcell died of a heart attack shortly before he was supposed to make the film. He was replaced by Carroll Nye who had made the short Soldiers of the Soil for Pine Thomas. Filming started 9 April 1944. See also List of American films of 1944 External links Dark Mountain at TCMDB Review of film at Variety References 1944 films American crime drama films 1944 crime drama films 1940s English-language films American black-and-white films Films directed by William A. Berke 1940s American films