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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. [2] Plot. 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.
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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.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- King Vidor
- 1951-06-25
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.
- King Vidor, Felix Jacoves, Frank Mattison
- Ruth Roman
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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) Movie Info Synopsis An actress (Ruth Roman) staying at a Texas dude ranch loves a man (Richard Todd) suspected of killing his wife.
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Mystery & Thriller
- King Vidor
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. Actress Shelley Carnes (Ruth Roman), is looking forward to an exciting vacation at a dude ranch, but she gets more than she bargained for, including a perhaps murderous new husband ...
Directed by King Vidor • 1951 • United States Starring Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge Directed by pioneering auteur King Vidor in the full flowering of his overheated late-career style, this delirious noir-melodrama stars Ruth Roman as Shelley Carnes, a New York stage actor who travels to a Texas dude ranch for her health.