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Lightning Bill

Jun 29, 1926

0h 16m

★ 0.0

Overview

Lightnin' Bill Williams, the owner of a 50,000-acre ranch near the town of Cactusville, takes a fall off a cliff, and the experience affects him to the extent that he has lost his nerve. Oil promoter Dan Carson and geologist Lional Murphy find large oil deposits under Bill's ranch, and decide to swindle him out of them. Complications ensue.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Goodwill Productions

Lightning Bill Trailers

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Cast

Marie Denton

Jean Arthur

William W. Williams

William Bailey

Daniel Carson

Charles Meakin

John R. Denton

Edward Heim

Edward G. Hookem

Jack Henderson

Lionel Jay Murphy

Tom Shirley

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