''Chain Lightning'' is a 1927 American silent

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film directed by

Lambert Hillyer Lambert Harwood Hillyer (July 8, 1893 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director and screenwriter. Biography Lambert Harwood Hillyer was born July 8, 1893, in Tyner, Indiana. His mother was character actress Lydia Knott. A graduate o ...

and written by Lambert Hillyer based upon the novel ''Brass Commandments'' by

Malcolm Stuart Boylan Malcolm Stuart Boylan (April 13, 1897 – April 3, 1967) was an American screenwriter, writer, and founder of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Screenwriting Boylan entered the entertainment industry as a stage actor while working as a newspap ...

.Progressive Silent Film List: ''Chain Lightning''
at silentera.com The film stars

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, Diane Ellis, Ted McNamara, Jack Baston, William Welsh, and Martin Faust. The film was released on August 14, 1927, by

Fox Film Corporation The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American Independent film production studio formed by William Fox (1879–1952) in 1915, by combining his earlier Greater New York Film Rental Company and Box Office Attractions Film C ...

. The novel that the film is based upon was previously filmed as ''

Brass Commandments ''Brass Commandments'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring William Farnum, Wanda Hawley, and Tom Santschi. The novel of the same name by Charles Alden Seltzer that the film is based upon was later fi ...

'' (1923).

Plot summary

Cast

as Steve Lannon * Diane Ellis as Glory Jackson *

Ted McNamara Edward Joseph McNamara (19 September 1894 – February 1928) was an Australian vaudevillian who made a career on stage in Australia, the United States, and in Hollywood silent films before dying suddenly in 1928. At various times he has credite ...

as Shorty * Jack Baston as Campan * William Welsh as George Clearwater * Martin Faust as Bannack * William Caress as Tom Yeats * Gene Cameron as Binghamwell Stokes Hurlbert

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