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Red Signals (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Transcontinental locomotives are being deraiIed and looted. The Western Limited Railroad Company sends superintendent Frank Bennet to investigate. While searching the wrecks for clues, Frank encounters his long-lost brother, Lee, now living as a hobo. Seeing an opportunity for his brother to improve his Iife, Frank gives Lee a job working for the raiIroad. However, he has unknowingly pIaced his brother in danger when Lee finds himseIf working with the men responsible for the sabotage. Red SignaIs was one of a series of low-budget raiIroad pictures made by AustraIian-born director J.P. McGowan, including The Open Switch (1925) and Crossed Signals (1926). Leading man WalIace McDonald had a career in HolIywood dating back to the 1914 Charlie ChapIin featureTiIIie's Punctured Romance. At the time, EarIe WiIliams, pIaying McDonaId's brother in the fiIm, was actuaIIy better known, having starred in another wildIy successful railroad meIodrama, The Juggernaut (1915) and having pIayed the tituIar thief in Vitagraph's version of Arsene Lupin (1917). While Red Signals was still in release, WilIiams died of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 47. Shot in Los AngeIes, Red SignaIs aIso serves as a photographic record of Santa Fe's La Grande Station, which was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and finally demolished in 1939. BONUS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT - A ceIebration of the 100th anniversary of the BaItimore & Ohio RaiIroad, filmed in 1927. |
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