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The Lightning Flyer

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The Lightning Flyer
Directed byWilliam Nigh
Written byBarry Barringer
Starring
CinematographyTed Tetzlaff
Edited byJames Sweeney
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 20, 1931 (1931-03-20)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Lightning Flyer is a 1931 American pre-Code action film directed by William Nigh and starring James Hall, Dorothy Sebastian and Robert Homans.[1]

Plot

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After graduating from college, the son of a railroad president takes a job working for the company under an assumed name to prove that he isn't as lazy as his father thinks. He falls in love but also makes a bitter enemy in the yard foreman. After exposing the man as a thief and a murderer, his antagonist breaks out of prison and seeks revenge by way of a runaway train.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Martin p.188

Bibliography

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  • Martin, Len D. Columbia Checklist: The Feature Films, Serials, Cartoons, and Short Subjects of Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1922-1988. McFarland, 1991.
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