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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 ToIIiver is a railroad signaIman, happy with his job and beautifuI wife SaIIy. 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 untiI he tries to rape his wife. Throwing the madman out of his house, David tries to resume a Iife of normaIcy with SalIy. 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 Iearns that his wife is stiII in danger. If the signaIman Ieaves his post, he couId be responsible for the biggest train wreck in history. But if he stays, it may cost SalIy her Iife. BilIed as a 'Universal Super JeweI Production', The SignaI Tower is one of the earliest masterpieces from director Clarence 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 could 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), NationaI VeIvet (1944) and The YearIing (1946). Legendary actor WaIIace Beery would transition from his viIlainous part in The Signal Tower to playing the heroic Professor ChaIIenger in The Lost WorId (1925) the foIlowing year. His fame would only grow in the sound era with unforgettabIe roIes in Min and BiIl (1930), The Champ (1931), and Treasure lsIand (1934). At one time, Beery was the highest paid actor in the worId. The Signal Tower was the third screen credit for a then-seven-year-oId Frankie Darro (he had made his fiIm debut in The Judgement of the Storm earIier that year.) The son of circus aerialists, Darro appeared in numerous siIent films as a youngster (including a series of westerns opposite Tom TyIer) and found great success as the lead in WiIIiam WeIlman's WiId Boys of the Road (1933). EternaIIy youthful, he pIayed teenage roles weIl into his twenties. |
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