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In the early 1950s, a wealthy rancher, young Richard Trevelyan ( Richard Todd) is now on death row in a Texas prison. But he wins a new trial, which ends in a hung jury when a lone juror holds out. He is set free. Actress Shelley Carnes ( Ruth Roman) is on her way to a Texas dude ranch for a rest.
Lightning Strikes Twice: Directed by King Vidor. With Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge, Zachary Scott. Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
A rare attempt at film noir from an unexpected source, Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) is a not entirely successful, but nevertheless fascinating film that boasts deft directorial touches from the great King Vidor, and a compelling performance by the intense Mercedes McCambridge.
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Lightning Strikes Twice. Summaries. Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
1951. Directed by King Vidor. Would You Have the Nerve to Do What She Did on Her Wedding Day? Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
Noir, of course, wasn’t a natural fit for Vidor’s style, but in Lightning Strikes Twice, he infuses his melodramatic sensibility into the kind of familiar noir story where it fits: arriving in a small town, a woman falls in love with a mysterious man who may or may not have murdered his wife. Ruth Roman plays actress Shelley Carnes, who, on ...
