Chain Lightning (1950 film)
| Chain Lightning | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Stuart Heisler |
| Written by | Lester Cole (from story "These Many Years") Liam O'Brien (screenplay) and Vincent B. Evans (screenplay) |
| Produced by | Anthony Veiller |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Eleanor Parker Raymond Massey |
| Cinematography | Ernest Haller |
| Edited by | Thomas Reilly |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 94 minutes 90 minutes (Germany) |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Multiple translations |
| Budget | $1,477,000 |
| Box office | $2,555,000 |
Chain Lightning is a 1950 American aviation film. The screenplay was written by Liam O'Brien and Vincent B. Evans, who had been a bombardier on the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle during World War II, based on the story "These Many Years" by blacklisted communist writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym J. Redmond Prior). Cole's credit on the film was officially restored by the Writers Guild of America in 1997.
The film stars Humphrey Bogart as a test pilot along with Eleanor Parker and Raymond Massey. It is one of Bogart's final [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros. films, ending a 20-year association.