Texas Lightning

1981

Action / Comedy / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 17%
IMDb Rating 4.1/10 10 288 288

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Director

Gary Graver Photo
Gary Graver

Top cast

Cameron Mitchell Photo
Cameron Mitchell as Karl Stover
Hope Holiday Photo
Hope Holiday as Mrs. Stover
Maureen McCormick Photo
Maureen McCormick as Fay
Charles Dierkop Photo
Charles Dierkop as Walt
480p.DVD
810.12 MB
640*480
English 2.0
NR
us  
29.97 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 3 / 10

They say lightning doesn't strike twice, but this one didn't even strike once...

Should be no surprise that I was not familiar with this 1981 movie titled "Texas Lightning", as I was a mere six years old when it was released. And can't exactly claim that the movie was a classic in any way, which meant I never actually knew about it before now in 2025, as I happened to stumble upon it by random chance. Since it was a movie that I hadn't already seen, nor actually ever heard about, of course I opted to give writer and director Gary Graver's 1981 movie a fair chance.But talk about a swing and a miss of a narrative. The storyline failed to entertain me, and I wasn't brought to any laughs. In fact, I found the characters insanely annoying and some of them downright obnoxious. And that certainly didn't help to make the movie any easier on the eyes.The movie does have a couple of familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of Peter Jason and Cameron Mitchell. The acting performances in the movie were nothing outstanding, but at least it wasn't downright bad performances.Hardly a noteworthy movie. Nor a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time.My rating of writer and director Gary Graver's 1981 movie "Texas Lightning" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.
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Reviewed by moonspinner55 1 / 10

If it were any more garbled, it would look like home movies from another country...

Maureen McCormick from "The Brady Bunch" is actually a pretty good actress (I recall seeing her on an episode of TV's "Vegas" in the late '70s doing solid work). It's easy to see why she took on this low-budget project, but, alas, it is a film constructed by filmmakers who have little idea how to construct a film. McCormick plays a honkytonk waitress who befriends a backwards young man in town on a hunting trip with his "macho" dad and the dad's sniggering pals. Songbird Maureen, peppy and possibly flirting, takes the kid back to her room to make out (I think) but the other guys burst in and try to rape her (from what I could see through the production murk, 'rape' would be difficult for these lousy Lotharios). The star likely accepted this acting job because hers is a sympathetic part and she gets to sing and play her guitar. She probably had no idea how it was going to turn out. How did it turn out? It's so bad that when I searched the credits for a director--it wasn't to see who he was but if the movie even had one. NO STARS from ****
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