Lightnin'

Lightnin'
Directed by	John Ford
Written by	Frank Bacon Frances Marion Winchell Smith
Starring	Jay Hunt Wallace MacDonald
Cinematography	Joseph H. August
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date(s)	23 August, 1925
Running time	104 minutes (20.6 frame/s)
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

Lightnin' is a 1925 comedy film directed by John Ford.^[1] It was based on a successful play that played 1,291 performances starting in 1918 at the Gaiety Theatre (New York). It was remade by Henry King for Fox in 1930 as an early talkie starring Will Rogers with support from Louise Dresser and Joel McCrea.

Cast

Jay Hunt - William 'Lightnin' Bill' Jones
Wallace MacDonald - John Marvin
Richard Travers - Mr. Raymond Thomas
J. Farrell MacDonald - Judge Lemuel Townsend
Otis Harlan - Zeb
Edythe Chapman - Mrs. Bill Jones
Madge Bellamy - Miss Millie Jones
Ethel Clayton - Margaret Davis
Brandon Hurst - Everett Hammond
James A. Marcus - Sheriff Blodgett (as James Marcus)
Erville Alderson - Courtroom Attendant (uncredited)
Nora Cecil - Passerby in Buggy (uncredited)
Tommy Hicks - Otis Harlan's Son (uncredited)
Peter Mazutis - Oscar (uncredited)
Ida Moore - Courtroom Observer (uncredited)

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Lightnin'". Silent Era. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/Lightnin1925.html. Retrieved 2008-03-05.

External links

Lightnin' at the Internet Movie Database

The films of John Ford

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1920s	The Prince of Avenue A The Girl in Number 29 Hitchin' Posts Just Pals The Big Punch The Freeze-Out The Wallop Desperate Trails Action Sure Fire Jackie Little Miss Smiles Silver Wings (with Edwin Carewe) The Village Blacksmith The Face on the Bar-Room Floor Three Jumps Ahead Cameo Kirby North of Hudson Bay Hoodman Blind Hearts of Oak Lightnin' Kentucky Pride Thank You The Fighting Heart The Shamrock Handicap 3 Bad Men Upstream Four Sons Napoleon's Barber Strong Boy The Black Watch

1930s	Men Without Women Born Reckless Up the River Seas Beneath The Brat Arrowsmith Air Mail Pilgrimage Doctor Bull The Lost Patrol The World Moves On Judge Priest The Whole Town's Talking The Informer Steamboat Round the Bend The Prisoner of Shark Island Mary of Scotland The Plough and the Stars Wee Willie Winkie The Hurricane Four Men and a Prayer Submarine Patrol Stagecoach Young Mr. Lincoln Drums Along the Mohawk

1940s	The Grapes of Wrath The Long Voyage Home Tobacco Road How Green Was My Valley They Were Expendable My Darling Clementine The Fugitive Fort Apache 3 Godfathers She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1950s	When Willie Comes Marching Home Wagon Master Rio Grande The Quiet Man What Price Glory? The Sun Shines Bright Mogambo The Long Gray Line Mister Roberts (with Mervyn LeRoy) The Searchers The Wings of Eagles The Rising of the Moon Gideon's Day The Last Hurrah The Horse Soldiers

1960s	Sergeant Rutledge Two Rode Together The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance How the West Was Won (with Henry Hathaway and George Marshall) Donovan's Reef Cheyenne Autumn 7 Women

Television	"Fireside Theater" (1949) The Bamboo Cross (1955) "Screen Directors Playhouse" (1955) "Wagon Train" (1957-1965)

Productions	The Iron Horse (1924) The Blue Eagle (1926) Mother Machree (1928) Hangman's House (1928) Riley the Cop (1928) Salute (1929) Flesh (1932) The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Young Cassidy (1965)

Documentaries	Torpedo Squadron Sex Hygiene (1942) The Battle of Midway (1942) December 7th (1943) We Sail at Midnight (1943) This Is Korea! (1951) Korea (1959) Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976)