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Chain Lightning
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5333 feet
Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Cast: Buck Jones [Steve Lannon], Dione Ellis [Glory Jackson], Ted McNamara [Shorty], Jack Baston [Campan], William Welch [George Clearwater], Marte Faust [Bannack], William Caress [Tom Yeats], Gene Cameron [Binghamwell Stokes Hurlbert]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Lambert Hillyer, from the novel The Brass Commandments by Charles Alden Seltzer. Costume design by Kathleen Key. Assistant director, Ted Brooks. Cinematography by Reginald Lyons. Film editor, Louis Loeffler. Intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by William Fox. / © 14 August 1927 by Fox Film Corporation [LP24336]. Released 14 August 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Brass Commandments (1923). / Silent film.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 19 May 2012.

References: Website-AFI.