Slow as Lightning
movie

Released December 19, 1923
Overview
Our hero Jimmie March works for stockbroker E.J. Philips and daydreams of romance with Eleanor, the boss's lovely daughter. Unfortunately, Eleanor is dating Mortimer Fenton, a wealthy cad who used to push Jimmie around in college. To add insult to injury, Jimmie gets fired. All seems lost until a gypsy fortune teller foretells that he'll make a bundle playing hunches in the stock market. So, he convinces his buddies to lend him some money and invests in stocks that then start to skyrocket. However, Fenton isn't about to take that lying down and subsequently hatches a plan to wipe his rival out for good... Will Jimmie's fortune come true? Will he be able to defeat Fenton and win the heart of the girl? Watch and find out!
Cast
Kenneth MacDonald
as
Jimmie March
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Billy 'Red' Jones
as
Jimmie March - as a Child
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Edna Pennington
as
Eleanor Philips
Gordon Sackville
as
E.J. Philips
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William Berke
as
Mortimer Fenton
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William Malan
as
Pat Mc Guire - the Irishman (as William Mahlen)
Max Asher
as
Isaac Cohen - the Hebrew
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Otto Metzetti
as
Chief of Crooks