The Thundering Trail is a 1951 American Western film produced and directed by Ron Ormond and starring Lash LaRue and Al "Fuzzy" St. John. It was the ninth of LaRue's films for Ormond's Western Adventures Productions and the third to be released by Howco, a distribution company owned by Ormond and drive-in theater owners Joy N. Houck and J. Francis White. The screenplay was cowritten by Ormond's wife June Carr and associate producer Ira S. Webb. The film features a large amount of footage from previous Ormond/LaRue Westerns.