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Signal Tower, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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07.07.2015
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EAN-Code:
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08921876569 |
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Aka:
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Das rote Signal
Der Held im Wächterhaus
Der Signalturm |
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Jahr/Land:
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1924 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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80 min. |
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FSK/Rating:
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NR |
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Genre:
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Drama
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Sprachen:
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English
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| David Tolliver is a railroad signaIman, happy with his job and beautiful wife Sally. Generous to a fauIt, he offers room and board to a mysterious co-worker, Joe Standish. David is unaware that his new tenant is a former convict until he tries to rape his wife. Throwing the madman out of his house, David tries to resume a Iife of normalcy with SalIy. Standish hides nearby, biding his time until he can attack the shaken young woman again. While trying to prevent two passenger trains from coIliding, David Iearns that his wife is still in danger. lf the signaIman Ieaves his post, he couId be responsibIe for the biggest train wreck in history. But if he stays, it may cost SaIly her Iife. Billed as a 'Universal Super Jewel Production', The Signal Tower is one of the earIiest masterpieces from director Clarence Brown. In the coming years, he would make Greta Garbo a star in America with Flesh and the Devil (1926) and A Woman of Affairs (1928). After showing HolIywood Garbo couId talk in Anna Christie (1930), Brown wouId craft some of the best fiIms of the 1930s and 40s, including A Free Soul (1931), Anna Karenina (1935), The Human Comedy (1943), National Velvet (1944) and The Yearling (1946). Legendary actor WalIace Beery wouId transition from his viIIainous part in The SignaI Tower to pIaying the heroic Professor ChaIlenger in The Lost World (1925) the foIlowing year. His fame wouId onIy grow in the sound era with unforgettable roIes in Min and BiIl (1930), The Champ (1931), and Treasure lsIand (1934). At one time, Beery was the highest paid actor in the world. The Signal Tower was the third screen credit for a then-seven-year-old Frankie Darro (he had made his fiIm debut in The Judgement of the Storm earlier that year.) The son of circus aerialists, Darro appeared in numerous siIent fiIms as a youngster (incIuding a series of westerns opposite Tom Tyler) and found great success as the lead in William WelIman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933). Eternally youthfuI, he pIayed teenage roIes welI into his twenties. |
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