Thunder in the East is a 1952 American war film released by Paramount Pictures, and directed by Charles Vidor. It was based on the 1948 novel The Rage of the Vulture by Alan Moorehead; the book title was the working title of the film.

The film is set in 1947 after India had gained its independence from Britain. Steve Gibbs (Alan Ladd), a former Flying Tiger is an American gunrunner who flies into the hill station capital of a small Northern Indian state called Gandahar. He intends to sell weapons to the local Maharajah whose capital is facing an attack from an opposing army. He is opposed by the Maharajah's prime minister Singh (Charles Boyer), who is a proponent of Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence. Steve is initially forbidden by Prime Minister Singh from seeing the Maharajah, but Steve bides his time in the capital.

Alan Ladd as Steve Gibbs

Deborah Kerr as Joan Willoughby

Charles Boyer as Prime Minister Singh

Corinne Calvet as Lizette Damon

Cecil Kellaway as Vicar Willoughby

Marc Cavell as Moti Lal

John Abbott as Nitra Puta

Philip Bourneuf as Newah Khan

John Williams as General Sir Henry Harrison

Charles Lung as Maharajah

Leonora Hornblow as Tayhi, Joan's Maid

Leonard Carey as Dr. Paling

Nelson Welch as Norton

Queenie Leonard as Miss Huggins

George J. Lewis as The Bartender

Aram Katcher as Servant

John Davidson as The Hotel Clerk

Trevor Ward as Mr. Darcy Thompson

Bruce Payne as Harpoole

Jill St. John as an English Girl