Thunder and Lightning (1938 film)

Thunder and Lightning
Directed by	Anders Henrikson
Written by	P. G. Wodehouse (novel) Hasse Ekman
Starring	Olof Winnerstrand Nils Wahlbom Frida Winnerstrand Åke Söderblom
Cinematography	Elner Åkesson
Edited by	Oscar Rosander
Music by	Eric Bengtson
Production company	Svensk Filmindustri
Distributed by	Svensk Filmindustri
Release date	21 March 1938 (1938-03-21)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

Thunder and Lightning (Swedish: Blixt och dunder) is a 1938 Swedish comedy film directed by Anders Henrikson and starring Olof Winnerstrand, Nils Wahlbom and Frida Winnerstrand. It is an adaptation of the 1929 novel Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse, one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.^[1] The film's art direction was by Arne Åkermark.

Thunder and Lightning is a version of the 1933 film Summer Lightning. Both films are based on the same Wodehouse novel.^[2]

Cast

• Olof Winnerstrand as Magnus Gabriel Hägerskiöld
• Nils Wahlbom as Pontus Hägerskiöld
• Frida Winnerstrand as Charlotta Hägerskiöld
• Åke Söderblom as Claes-Ferdinande Hägerskiöld
• Marianne Aminoff as Inga
• Hasse Ekman as Bertil Bendix
• Sickan Carlsson as Pyret Hanson
• Eric Abrahamsson as Head Waiter Härman
• Torsten Winge as Axel Hjalmar Stencloo
• Weyler Hildebrand as Charlie Blomberg
• Alice Babs as Flower Girl
• Julia Cæsar as Telegraph operator
• Emil Fjellström as Andersson
• Nils Dahlgren as Head waiter at Savoy
• David Erikson as Driver
• Georg Fernqvist as Waiter at Savoy
• Åke Grönberg as Chucker-out
• Eivor Landström as Guest at Savoy
• Otto Malmberg as Adolf

References

1. Qvist & von Bagh p.85
2. Blixt och dunder (1938) - Connections - IMDb. Retrieved 19 March 2025 – via www.imdb.com.

Bibliography

• Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

External links

• Thunder and Lightning at IMDb