Summer Lightning

Directed by	Maclean Rogers
Written by	Miles Malleson
Based on	novel Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Starring	Ralph Lynn Winifred Shotter Chili Bouchier
Cinematography	Freddie Young
Production companies	Herbert Wilcox Productions (for) British & Dominions Film Corporation
Distributed by	United Artists Corporation (UK)
Release dates	10 July 1933 (1933-07-10) (London, UK)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Summer Lightning is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Chili Bouchier and Horace Hodges.^[1] It is based on the 1929 novel Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse.^[2]

Premise

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Hugo Carmody, the impoverished secretary to Lord Emsworth falls for Millicent the boss's niece, and steals his Lordship's prize pig in a scheme to raise funds to marry her.^[3]

Cast

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Ralph Lynn as Hugo Carmody
Winifred Shotter as Millicent Keeble
Chili Bouchier as Sue Brown
Horace Hodges as Lord Emsworth
Helen Ferrers as Lady Emsworth
Esme Percy as Baxter
Miles Malleson as Beach
Gordon James as Pillbeam
Joe Monkhouse as Pigman

References

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^ "Summer Lightning (1933)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
^ "Summer Lightning (1933) - Maclean Rogers - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".

External links

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Summer Lightning at IMDb

Films by Maclean Rogers

The Third Eye (1929)
The Mayor's Nest (1932)
The Crime at Blossoms (1933)
Summer Lightning (1933)
Up for the Derby (1933)
Trouble (1933)
It's a Cop (1934)
Virginia's Husband (1934)
The Scoop (1934)
The Feathered Serpent (1934)
A Little Bit of Bluff (1935)
The Right Age to Marry (1935)
Old Faithful (1935)
Marry the Girl (1935)
A Wife or Two (1936)
The Shadow of Mike Emerald (1936)
A Touch of the Moon (1936)
Not So Dusty (1936)
To Catch a Thief (1936)
The Heirloom Mystery (1936)
The Happy Family (1936)
Nothing Like Publicity (1936)
Busman's Holiday (1936)
Farewell to Cinderella (1937)
Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith (1937)
Fifty-Shilling Boxer (1937)
All That Glitters (1937)
Father Steps Out (1937)
Why Pick on Me? (1937)
Racing Romance (1937)
Easy Riches (1938)
If I Were Boss (1938)
His Lordship Regrets (1938)
Darts Are Trumps (1938)
Weddings Are Wonderful (1938)
Paid in Error (1938)
Miracles Do Happen (1939)
His Lordship Goes to Press (1939)
Garrison Follies (1940)
Old Mother Riley Joins Up (1940)
Shadowed Eyes (1940)
Facing the Music (1941)
Front Line Kids (1942)
Gert and Daisy's Weekend (1942)
Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942)
Variety Jubilee (1943)
I'll Walk Beside You (1943)
Somewhere in Civvies (1943)
Give Me the Stars (1945)
Don Chicago (1945)
The Trojan Brothers (1946)
Woman to Woman (1947)
Calling Paul Temple (1948)
The Story of Shirley Yorke (1948)
Dark Secret (1949)
Paul Temple's Triumph (1950)
Something in the City (1950)
Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure (1951)
Madame Louise (1951)
Paul Temple Returns (1952)
Salute the Toff (1952)
Hammer the Toff (1952)
Down Among the Z Men (1952)
Alf's Baby (1953)
Force's Sweetheart (1953)
Behind the Headlines (1953)
Flannelfoot (1953)
Johnny on the Spot (1954)
Calling All Cars (1954)
Assignment Redhead (1956)
Not So Dusty (1956)
You Pay Your Money (1957)
Not Wanted on Voyage (1957)
Mark of the Phoenix (1958)
A Clean Sweep (1958)
Just Joe (1960)

P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle

Novels

Short stories

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935)
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)
- "The Crime Wave at Blandings"
Nothing Serious (1950)
- "Birth of a Salesman"
Plum Pie (1966)
- "Sticky Wicket at Blandings"

Main characters

Other characters

Adaptations

Film	Leave It to Me (1933) Summer Lightning (1933) Thunder and Lightning (1938)
Television	The World of Wodehouse (1967) Heavy Weather (1995) Blandings (2013–14)
Other	Leave It to Psmith (play) (1930) Blandings (radio series) (1985–92) List of adaptations

P. G. Wodehouse

Series

Novels

Short story
collections

Posthumously
published books

Musicals

Plays

Autobiographies

Adaptations

Film	A Gentleman of Leisure (1915) Uneasy Money (1918) A Damsel in Distress (1919) Piccadilly Jim (1919) The Prince and Betty (1919) Oh, Lady, Lady (1920) Their Mutual Child (1920) A Gentleman of Leisure (1923) The Clicking of Cuthbert (1924) The Golden Butterfly (1926) The Small Bachelor (1927) The Cardboard Lover (1927) Oh, Kay! (1928) Brother Alfred (1932) The Passionate Plumber (1932) Leave It to Me (1933) Summer Lightning (1933) Anything Goes (1936) Piccadilly Jim (1936) Thank You, Jeeves! (1936) Step Lively, Jeeves (1937) A Damsel in Distress (1937) Thunder and Lightning (1938) Her Cardboard Lover (1942) Anything Goes (1956) The Girl on the Boat (1961) By Jeeves (2001) Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Television	The World of Wooster (1965–67) The World of Wodehouse (1967–68) Wodehouse Playhouse (1975–78) Jeeves and Wooster (1990–93) Heavy Weather (1995) Blandings (2013–14)
Radio	What Ho! Jeeves (1973–81) Blandings (1985–92)
Stage	Jeeves (later By Jeeves) (1975/1996) Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (2013) A Damsel in Distress (2015)

Films by Herbert Wilcox

As director

Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Southern Love (1924)
Decameron Nights (1924)
The Only Way (1926)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
London (1926)
Tip Toes (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
Mumsie (1927)
Dawn (1928)
The Bondman (1929)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Carnival (1931)
The Blue Danube (1932)
Goodnight, Vienna (1932)
Money Means Nothing (1932)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Yes, Mr Brown (1933)
The Queen's Affair (1934)
Nell Gwyn (1934)
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
This'll Make You Whistle (1936)
Three Maxims (1936)
London Melody (1937)
Limelight (1937)
Victoria the Great (1937)
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Irene (1940)
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Sunny (1941)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Yellow Canary (1943)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Odette (1950)
Into the Blue (1950)
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Derby Day (1952)
Trent's Last Case (1952)
Laughing Anne (1953)
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
King's Rhapsody (1955)
My Teenage Daughter (1956)
These Dangerous Years (1957)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Wonderful Things! (1958)
The Lady Is a Square (1959)
The Heart of a Man (1959)

Producer only

The Wonderful Story (1922)
Flames of Passion (1922)
Paddy the Next Best Thing (1923)
A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929)
When Knights Were Bold (1929)
Black Waters (1929)
Splinters (1929)
Rookery Nook (1930)
Wolves (1930)
Warned Off (1930)
On Approval (1930)
Plunder (1930)
Tons of Money (1930)
The Speckled Band (1931)
Almost a Divorce (1931)
Up for the Cup (1931)
Mischief (1931)
A Night Like This (1932)
Life Goes On (1932)
The Mayor's Nest (1932)
Thark (1932)
The Love Contract (1932)
Leap Year (1932)
The Flag Lieutenant (1932)
Say It with Music (1932)
The Barton Mystery (1932)
The King's Cup (1933)
Discord (1933)
One Precious Year (1933)
The Blarney Stone (1933)
Lord of the Manor (1933)
It's a King (1933)
Summer Lightning (1933)
Purse Strings (1933)
That's a Good Girl (1933)
Up for the Derby (1933)
Just My Luck (1933)
Trouble (1933)
Night of the Garter (1933)
Sorrell and Son (1933)
Faces (1934)
Lucky Loser (1934)
It's a Cop (1934)
General John Regan (1934)
Girls, Please! (1934)
Up to the Neck (1934)
The King of Paris (1934)
Lilies of the Field (1934)
Brewster's Millions (1935)
Escape Me Never (1935)
Come Out of the Pantry (1935)
Fame (1936)
The Frog (1937)
The Rat (1937)
The Return of the Frog (1938)
A Royal Divorce (1938)
No Parking (1938)
Blondes for Danger (1938)
The Beggar's Opera (1953)
Yangtse Incident (1957)
The Navy Lark (1959)