Thunder in the Pines is a 1948 American comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Edwards (a pseudonym for Robert Gordon) and starring George Reeves and Ralph Byrd.

Reeves and Byrd and producer William Stephens had just made Jungle Goddess for Lippert and were signed for this follow up, originally called Green Gold.

[3] Inspired by Jungle Goddess, producer William Stephens announced he wanted to make four films a year starring Reeves and Byrd as a "Captain Flagg-Sergeant Quirt sort of team", starting with this one.

)[2] However conditions to film background scenes in South America, where Banana Fleet was set, were not ideal so instead Stephens made Hell on Wheels (which became Highway 13, also based on a story by Wilste).

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