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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

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Title: Lightning Strikes Twice [IMDb]


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Release date: April 12, 1951
Studio: Warner Brothers
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB genres: crime, drama, film-noir, mystery
BYU holdings: https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6791345

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Cast and Crew

ActorRole
Ruth RomanShelley Carnes
Richard ToddRichard Trevelyan
Mercedes McCambridgeLiza McStringer
Zachary ScottHarvey Fortescue Turner
Frank ConroyJ.D. Nolan
Kathryn GivneyMyra Nolan
Rhys WilliamsFather Paul
Darryl HickmanString

King Vidor: director

Max Steiner: musical director

Murray Cutter: orchestrator


Film Statistics

Stats
Film duration: 1:30:18
Music duration: 03:48:01
Pages in score: 137
Total themes: 35
Themes with variants: 14
Total variants: 71
Total gestures: 7
Total underscoring sections: 4
Total underscoring duration: 19:01:04
Total instances: 128

Themes

Name Uses Variants
Shelly 23 11
Shelly 2 20 7
Menace 16 11
Shelly and Trev 15 11
Trev 8 7
Shelly 3 5 3
Father Paul 4 3
Mournful 4 2
Fear 3 1
Liza 3 2
Anger 2 1
Escape 2 1
Molto Agitato 2 0
Afraid 1 0
Aftermath 1 0
Allargando 1 0
Ave Maria 1 1
Emotion 1 0
Jalopy 1 0
Lightning 1 0
Lightning 2 1 0
Lightning 3 1 0
News Office 1 0
Rescue 1 0
Searching 1 0
Signature 1 0
Spider 1 0
Transition 1 0

Other films borrowed from:

Crime School (1938)

In This Our Life (1942)

Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

Combinations

Name Uses
Shelly + Shelly 2 11

Source Music

Name Uses
Chiapanecas 1
El Pregon de Santiago 1
La Paloma 1
Mi Caballero 1
Too Much Love 1
Underneath a Western Sky 1

Gestures

Name
Blows out candle
Pulls doorknob
Rock falls
Slipping
Stumbling
Stumbling 2
Trev runs

Underscoring

Name
Dark
Dramatic
Somber
Tense