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Lightning Conductor (film)

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Genre
  
Comedy

Cinematography
  
Francis Carver

Language
  
English

Director
  
Maurice Elvey

Music director
  
Percival Mackey

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

Lightning Conductor (film) movie poster
Writer
  
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
,
Evadne Price

Release date
  
1938 (1938)

Cast
  
Ernest Thesiger
,
Steven Geray
,
Sally Gray
,
Gordon Harker
,
John Davis Lodge

Related Maurice Elvey movies
  
Sons of the Sea (1939), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921), Medal for the General (1944)

Lightning conductor


Lightning Conductor is a 1938 British comedy thriller film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gordon Harker, John Lodge and Sally Gray. The screenplay concerns a London bus driver who becomes embroiled in a plot by foreign agents to steal secret documents. It was made at Pinewood Studios.

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Cast

  • Gordon Harker as Albert Rughouse
  • John Lodge as Anderson
  • Sally Gray as Mary
  • Ernest Thesiger as Professor
  • George Moon as George
  • Steven Geray as Mortley
  • Charles Eaton as Royle
  • Arthur Hambling as Bus Inspector
  • Roy Findlay as Dakers

    • Critical reception

    Allmovie noted a "breezy British action comedy...No mere programmer, The Lightning Conductor is exceptionally well cast, with such reliables as John Lodge, Sally Gray, Ernst Thesiger and Steven Geray going through their usual expert paces." and TV Guide called it "a suspenseful comedy with some good characterizations."

    References

    Lightning Conductor (film) Wikipedia
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    Lightning Conductor (film) IMDb