High Voltage ** (1929, William Boyd, Diane Ellis, Owen Moore, Carole Lombard, Phillips Smalley, and Billy Bevan) – Classic Movie Review 12,624

Carole Lombard co-stars in her talkie feature-length debut, in the 1929 American pre-Code drama film High Voltage. It stars William Boyd.

Carole Lombard co-stars in her talkie feature-length debut, billed as Carol Lombard, in director Howard Higgin’s 1929 American pre-Code drama film High Voltage. It is produced by Pathé Exchange and stars William Boyd, Diane Ellis, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, and Billy Bevan.

A bus driving through a blizzard along a road in the Sierra Nevada Mountains gets stuck in deep snow 40 miles from the nearest town. The driver Gus (Billy Bevan) and his four passengers (including Carole Lombard, Owen Moore and Diane Ellis) find refuge in an isolated one-room log church, where they find hobo Bill (William Boyd). Tensions rise among the group as the days pass, and they break up furniture for heat and fight over dwindling food supplies. But apparently not everyone wants to de rescued.

The film is in the public domain, and here it is:

High Voltage (1929 film) – Wikipedia

The cast are William Boyd as The Boy (Bill), Carole Lombard as The Girl (Billie Davis), Owen Moore as The Detective (Dan Egan), Phillips Smalley as The Banker (J Milton Hendrickson), Billy Bevan as The Driver (Gus), and Diane Ellis as The Kid.

Lombard decided to keep ‘Carole’ as her screen name after she was mistakenly billed as Carole Lombard in 1930’s Fast and Loose.

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