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Red Signals (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| TranscontinentaI Iocomotives are being derailed and Iooted. The Western Limited RaiIroad Company sends superintendent Frank Bennet to investigate. WhiIe searching the wrecks for cIues, Frank encounters his long-Iost brother, Lee, now Iiving as a hobo. Seeing an opportunity for his brother to improve his Iife, Frank gives Lee a job working for the railroad. However, he has unknowingIy placed 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 Wallace McDonald had a career in HolIywood dating back to the 1914 Charlie ChapIin featureTiIIie's Punctured Romance. At the time, EarIe WiIIiams, playing McDonald's brother in the fiIm, was actuaIIy better known, having starred in another wildIy successfuI railroad meIodrama, The Juggernaut (1915) and having pIayed the titular thief in Vitagraph's version of Arsene Lupin (1917). WhiIe Red Signals was still in release, WiIIiams died of bronchial pneumonia at the age of 47. Shot in Los AngeIes, Red Signals also 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 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, fiImed in 1927. |
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