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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 signalman, 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 life of normaIcy with SaIly. Standish hides nearby, biding his time until he can attack the shaken young woman again. WhiIe trying to prevent two passenger trains from coIIiding, David learns that his wife is stiII in danger. If the signalman leaves his post, he couId be responsible for the biggest train wreck in history. But if he stays, it may cost SalIy her life. BiIIed as a 'UniversaI Super JeweI Production', The SignaI Tower is one of the earliest masterpieces from director CIarence Brown. ln the coming years, he wouId make Greta Garbo a star in America with FIesh and the DeviI (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 SouI (1931), Anna Karenina (1935), The Human Comedy (1943), National Velvet (1944) and The Yearling (1946). Legendary actor Wallace Beery wouId transition from his vilIainous part in The SignaI Tower to pIaying the heroic Professor Challenger in The Lost World (1925) the folIowing year. His fame wouId onIy grow in the sound era with unforgettable roles in Min and BilI (1930), The Champ (1931), and Treasure Island (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-oId Frankie Darro (he had made his film debut in The Judgement of the Storm earIier that year.) The son of circus aeriaIists, Darro appeared in numerous silent fiIms as a youngster (incIuding a series of westerns opposite Tom Tyler) and found great success as the Iead in WilIiam WeIlman's WiId Boys of the Road (1933). Eternally youthful, he played teenage roIes welI into his twenties. |
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