Lightning (1927 film) explained

Lightning
Director:	James C. McKay
Starring:	Jobyna Ralston Robert Frazer Margaret Livingston
Cinematography:	George Stevens E. Fox Walker Winney Wenstrom
Editing:	Leroy O. Lodwig
Studio:	Tiffany Pictures
Distributor:	Tiffany Pictures
Runtime:	70 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Lightning is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by James C. McKay and starring Jobyna Ralston, Robert Frazer, and Margaret Livingston.^[1] It is based on a short story of the same title by Zane Grey.

Cast

• Jobyna Ralston as Mary Warren / Topsy
• Robert Frazer as Lee Stewart
• Margaret Livingston as Dot Deal
• Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Cuth Stewart
• Pat Harmon as 'Simon'
• Lightning the Horse as Lightning the Horse
• Lady Bess as Lady Bess the Horse

Preservation

With no prints of Lightning located in any film archives,^[2] it is a lost film.

Bibliography

• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

Notes and References

1. Munden, p. 435
2. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6899/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Lightning