The Lightning Flyer

{{short description|1931 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name =The Lightning Flyer | image = The Lightning Flyer.jpg | caption = | director = William Nigh | producer = | writer = Barry Barringer | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|James Hall|Dorothy Sebastian|Robert Homans}} | music = | cinematography = Ted Tetzlaff | editing = James Sweeney | studio = Columbia Pictures | distributor = Columbia Pictures | released = {{Film date|1931|03|20}} | runtime = 62 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Lightning Flyer''''' is a 1931 American pre-Code action film directed by William Nigh and starring James Hall, Dorothy Sebastian and Robert Homans.<ref>Martin p.188</ref>

==Plot== After graduating from college, the son of a railroad president takes a job working for the company under an assumed name to prove that he isn't as lazy as his father thinks. He falls in love but also makes a bitter enemy in the yard foreman. After exposing the man as a thief and a murderer, his antagonist breaks out of prison and seeks revenge by way of a runaway train.

==Cast== * James Hall as Jimmie Nelson * Dorothy Sebastian as Rose Rogers * Walter Merrill as Tom Summers * Robert Homans as John Nelson * Albert J. Smith as Durkin * Ethan Allen as Sam Rogers * Eddie Boland as Slats * George Meadows as Pudge

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==Bibliography== * Martin, Len D. ''Columbia Checklist: The Feature Films, Serials, Cartoons, and Short Subjects of Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1922-1988''. McFarland, 1991.

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0022077}}

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