Lightning Love
About Lightning Love
Larry and Oliver turn up at the same hour to court Rhea. Her father prefers the bigger man. Nearly all of the action stays inside her house while an electrical storm runs. Bolts follow Larry up and down the stairs and keep hitting both suitors. At the finish the house itself is rocked from one site to another.
Cast & crew
More about Lightning Love
James D. Davis and Larry Semon directed and produced. Semon wrote it and plays the suitor. Oliver Hardy, billed as Babe Hardy, is the other suitor. Kathleen Myers is Rhea. Also known as Rural Rival. Two reels.
Themes
Notes
- Spencer Bell plays a butler. Al Thompson is the father. A monkey, Elma, is in the cast.
- A viewer who compared it with The Midnight Cabaret, often mixed up with this short, noted a house set on rockers and shifted from site to site for the last gag.
Scenes
- Lightning follows Larry from room to room.
- The house, set on rockers, is moved for the last shot.
