A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Edythe Chapman, Jay Hunt (center) and Otis Harlan. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Jay Hunt [‘Lightnin’ Bill Jones], Madge Bellamy [Millie], Edythe Chapman [Mother Jones], Wallace MacDonald [John Marvin], J. Farrell MacDonald [Judge Townsend], Ethel Clayton [Margaret Davis], James Marcus [the sheriff], Otis Harlan [Zeb], Brandon Hurst [Hammond], Richard Travers [Raymond Thomas], Peter Mazutis [Oscar]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Executive producer, William Fox. Scenario by Frances Marion, from the play Lightnin’ by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon. Assistant director, Edward O’Fearna. Cinematography by Joseph H. August. Presented by William Fox. / © 26 July 1925 by Fox Film Corporation [LP21685]. Released [?] 26 July or 23 August? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as Lightnin’ (1930).

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 8 October 2022.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 12, 274; Everson-American p. 182n; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 45; Gallagher-Ford p. 104; Sinclair-Ford p. 235 : Website-AFI.