Call Down the Thunder

A lightning-fast crime caper. Sonny and Clara Myers struggle on their Kansas farm in the late 1930s . . . their land’s gone dry, barren, and worthless; the local chapter of the KKK is terrorizing them; the bankers are greedy and hungry, trying to squeeze them and other farmers out of their homes; and, on top of that, their marriage is in trouble. The couple can struggle and wither along with the land or surrender to the bankers and hightail it to California like most of the others. Clara is all for leaving, but Sonny refuses to abandon the family farm. In a fit of temper, Clara takes off westward in their old battered truck. Alone on the farm and determined to get back Clara . . . Sonny comes up with a way to keep his land and even prosper while giving the banks a taste of their own misery. He sets the scheme in motion under the cover of the commotion being caused by a rainmaker hired by the mayor to call down the thunder and wash away everyone’s troubles. But Clara has joined the rainmaker’s show . . .