Summer Lightning
(1948)
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Summer Lightning
(1948)
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June Haver | ... |
Rad McGill
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Lon McCallister | ... |
Daniel 'Snug' Dominy
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| Walter Brennan | ... |
Tony Maule
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Anne Revere | ... |
Judith Dominy
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| Natalie Wood | ... |
Eufraznee 'Bean' McGill
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Robert Karnes | ... |
Stretch Dominy
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| Henry Hull | ... |
Milt Dominy
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Tom Tully | ... |
Robert 'Roarer' McGill
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Light-hearted, old-style romance about a farm-hand who arranges to buy a pair of mules from his employer. No one is able to handle the mules and he must train them. Adding to his dilemma, he pursues his boss's daughter who gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Of course, at the end he tames both the mules and the girl. Written by Kieran Lee <kjl@kjl.st-andrews.ac.uk>
An enjoyable film dealing with a male Cinderella-like relationship. Fed up with his nagging wife and bullying son, a man heads out to sea and leaves his son $20.00 to fend for himself.
The film is a gem as it shows the warm relationships that can develop with still another family and a man's determination to get those mules to work.
Anne Revere appears briefly as the wicked wife but she is memorable once again. As her n'eer-do-well son, Bob Karnes, is miserable at his best. Lon McAllister shines as the step-son and Natalie Wood steals the show as a precocious youngster who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Another good performance is given by Tom Tully as as a nasty neighbor, and Walter Brennan is in fine form as an understanding friend to the McAllister role.