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Lightnin’
UNITED STATES · 1925

Lightnin’

John Ford
marriage dynamics hotel management border setting work ethic entrepreneurship
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Synopsis

Set in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy follows a female hotel owner's efforts to turn a profit and get some work out of her husband.

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