LIGHTNIN'
starring Jay Hunt, Madge Bellamy, Wallace MacDonald and J. Farrell
MacDonald
PHOTOPLAY
October, 1925
It was a great play, but it isn't so much of a picture. Perhaps the secret of its success died with Frank Bacon. Certainly Jay Hunt fails to make Bill Jones the ornery, but lovable, character he was on the stage. He's just a pesky old man. The director tried to transfer the action too literally to the screen. He missed much of the pricelss spirit of the play.
SAG note: The director is John Ford, and the scenarist is
by Frances Marion.