Lightning Strikes Twice

Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

Would You Have the Nerve to Do What She Did on Her Wedding Day?

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.

Date of release
1951-04-12
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama
Director
King Vidor

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $1.1M
  • Budget: $1.1M
  • Earned 1× its budget

Lightning Strikes Twice is a 1951 Warner Bros. crime melodrama film starring Ruth Roman and Richard Todd and directed by King Vidor.

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures purchased the film rights to Margaret Echard's novel A Man Without Friends in November 1945 and Robert Hutton was rumored as the male lead. In December 1948, Henry Blanke was announced as the film's producer. Lenore Coffee was assigned to write the script in 1949 but rewrote it in 1950 in order to fit Richard Todd after he was cast as the male lead.

The music score repeatedly echoes a passage from La valse by Maurice Ravel.

Richard Todd claimed that he had sung in the film but was "so awful" that the scene was cut from the final print.

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