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- Lightning Strikes Twice is a 1951 Warner Bros -produced crime melodrama starring Ruth Roman and Richard Todd, and directed by King Vidor.
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Lightning Strikes Twice is a 1951 Warner Bros-produced crime melodrama starring Ruth Roman and Richard Todd, and directed by King Vidor.
Lightning Strikes Twice is a 1951 Warner Bros-produced crime melodrama starring Ruth Roman and Richard Todd, and directed by King Vidor.[2] In the early 1950s, a wealthy rancher, young Richard Trevelyan (Richard Todd) is now on death row in a Texas prison.
McCambridge, Roman stand out in King Vidor's overloaded desert melodrama Richard Todd sits on death row, waiting execution for his wife's murder. At the eleventh hour, a reprieve and new trial come through; he's acquitted, thanks to one holdout juror (Mercedes McCambridge).
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- King Vidor
- 1951-06-25
For director King Vidor, Lightning Strikes Twice was his failed attempt at a film noir. For modern audiences, however, it's less that then it is a campy melodrama that's at its best when it's most unhinged.
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- Warner Bros. Pictures
- King Vidor
Aug 4, 2022 · King Vidor directed Lightning Strikes Twice, a well-acted “women” melodrama, with some elements of a noir crime thriller. The poster tried to lure viewers by stating that “Ruth Roman is all woman.”
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951), a murder melodrama with Ruth Roman and Richard Todd, and Japanese War Bride (1952) were the sort of near B-films that would have been inconceivable for someone of his stature a decade earlier.
Feb 27, 2021 · For director King Vidor, Lightning Strikes Twice was his failed attempt at a film noir. For modern audiences, however, it's less that then it is a campy melodrama that's at its best when it's most unhinged.
