Summer Lightning - Adaptions

Adaptions

The novel has twice been adapted for the screen, with the 1933 version Summer Lightning directed by Maclean Rogers and featuring Ralph Lynn as Hugo Carmody, Chili Bouchier as Sue Brown, Esme Percy as Baxter and Miles Malleson as Beach. A 1939 Swedish adaptation, under the title Blixt och Dunder, was directed by Anders Henrikson and starred Olof Winnerstrand and his wife Frida Winnerstrand.

A stage play, adapted by Giles Havergal, was first performed at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre in 1992; a 1998 revival starred Helen Baxendale as Sue Brown. The play was recently performed at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake in 2009.