AThe film, Teen Age Thunder opened in Chicago, according to an ad in the Chicago Tribune, on Wednesday, November 27, 1957, as the bottom-half of a double-bill, at the Monroe theatre (Monroe at Dearborn); the top-half was the movie Carnival Rock. The Trib wrote this about "Thunder": Teen Age Thunder--"A father's lack of understanding of his son's enthusiasm for drag strip racing widens the breach between them. The stars are Charles Courtney and Robert Fuller."