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Lazy Lightning
FRANCE · 1926

Lazy Lightning

William Wyler
mistaken identity ranch life inheritance dispute redemption found family
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Synopsis

Lance Lighton is arrested for vagrancy and taken by the sheriff to the Rogers Ranch. Dickie Rogers takes a liking to the stranger who is allowed to remain to do odd jobs and to entertain the boy. An old man who is hard of hearing mistakes Lighton for "Lightning" and the nickname sticks. Uncle Henry, heir to Dickie's share of the estate in the event of the latter's death, has been systematically ch

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