Film

The Thundering Wave

19571h 30m

Director: John Frankenheimer
Year: 1957

Middle-aged actress Victoria Maxwell comes to terms with her destructive lifestyle as she struggles with the lead role in a Broadway-bound play. Matters are complicated by the fact that she is co-starring opposite her estranged husband, Allen Grant, whom she never stopped loving.

Top cast

Arthur Batanides

Archer

Joan Bennett

Vickie Maxwell

Douglas Henderson

Art Condon

Helen Kleeb

Frieda

Jack Klugman

Lew Downs

James Mason

Sidney Lowe

Pamela Mason

Marcia Lowe

Robin Morse

Max Harris

Paulene Myers

Irma

Susan Oliver

Louise Grant

Kyra Petrovskaya

Countess Naritsky

Jud Taylor

Larry Noyes

Franchot Tone

Allen Grant

William Dozier

Producer (uncredited)

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Self (uncredited)

Martin Ritt

Director (uncredited)

Directed by

John Frankenheimer

Written by

Robert Alan Aurthur