Greased Lightning

Apr 27, 1919

0h 50m

★ 10.0

"Say Sonny you can't draw money to buy one of those new fangled benzine buggies."

Overview

Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Thomas H. Ince Corporation

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Cast

Andy Fletcher

Charles Ray

Alice Flint

Wanda Hawley

Alden J. Armitage

Robert McKim

Laban Flint

Willis Marks

Grandpa Piper

Bert Woodruff

Milt Barlow

J.P. Lockney

Rufus Shadd

Otto Hoffman

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