Chain Lightning | |
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Directed by | Lambert Hillyer |
Screenplay by | Lambert Hillyer |
Based on | Brass Commandments 1923 novel by Charles Alden Seltzer |
Produced by | William Fox |
Starring | Buck Jones Diane Ellis Ted McNamara Jack Baston William Welsh Martin Faust |
Cinematography | Reginald Lyons |
Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Chain Lightning is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Lambert Hillyer based upon the novel Brass Commandments by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. [1] The film stars Buck Jones, Diane Ellis, Ted McNamara, Jack Baston, William Welsh, and Martin Faust. The film was released on August 14, 1927, by Fox Film Corporation. [2] [3] [4] The novel that the film is based upon was previously filmed as Brass Commandments (1923). [1]
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