Lightning Strikes Twice

9/4/2025

It was a dark and stormy night, and a policeman was shot outside 721 Palm Drive. Or was he? In _Lightning Strikes Twice_ mistaken identity is carried to the nth degree, with Pert Kelton and Walter Catlett as a vaudeville act dropped into a society house where ditzy Aunt Jane's (Laura Jane Crews) young nephew, Steve, (Ben Lyon) is preparing to introduce her to his fiancée (Thelma Todd) and her starchy Navy captain father (Jonathan Hale). Wally Richards ("Skeets" Gallagher) is Steve's sidekick, single of course, who tries to keep all the balls in the air as confusion reigns and the butler (John Davidson), who thinks he did it but didn't, hides in closets and looks a lot like Cesare, the somnabulist in _The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari_ minus the eye shadow. Hardly an undiscovered gem, _Lightni