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Slow as Lightning

5.0 57 mins Action   Drama   1923
Sunset Productions  
Director(s): Grover Jones

Our hero Jimmie March works for stockbroker E.J. Philips and daydreams of romance with Eleanor, the boss's lovely daughter. Unfortunately, Eleanor is dating Mortimer Fenton, a wealthy cad who used to push Jimmie around in college. To add insult to injury, Jimmie gets fired. All seems lost until a gypsy fortune teller foretells that he'll make a bundle playing hunches in the stock market. So, he convinces his buddies to lend him some money and invests in stocks that then start to skyrocket. However, Fenton isn't about to take that lying down and subsequently hatches a plan to wipe his rival out for good... Will Jimmie's fortune come true? Will he be able to defeat Fenton and win the heart of the girl? Watch and find out!

Casts of Slow as Lightning

Kenneth MacDonald

as Jimmie March

Billy 'Red' Jones

as Jimmie March - as a Child

Edna Pennington

as Eleanor Philips

Gordon Sackville

as E.J. Philips

William Berke

as Mortimer Fenton

William Malan

as Pat Mc Guire - the Irishman (as William Mahlen)

Max Asher

as Isaac Cohen - the Hebrew

Otto Metzetti

as Chief of Crooks

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