The Danger Signal (1925 film)

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The Danger Signal is a 1925 melodrama film directed by Erle C. Kenton. [1]

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The Danger Signal
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Still from the film
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Written by Douglas Z. Doty
Starring Jane Novak
Dorothy Revier
Robert Edeson
Gaston Glass
Cinematography Dewey Wrigley
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
July 1, 1925
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine, [2] The story starts in 1904 with the railroad president refusing to have anything to do with the widow of his son who had eloped the year before. He agrees, however, to bring up her baby, not knowing that she is the mother of twins. She gives one of them over to his keeping and changes her name.

Twenty years later finds both boys working for the railroad, .the grandfather’s ward,. spoiled and shiftless, as a district assistant superintendent, and his brother, unbeknown to him, as a fireman at the same junction. The twins come to conflict over the girl in the case and the poorer one underservedly loses his job. Affairs are finally righted and the grandfather realizes that the boy brought up in poverty but with a mother’s love has made & much better man than the one with everything in the world but maternal affection.

The big thrill comes when a runaway engine seems to be headed straight for the passenger express coming in the opposite direction. The hero (Robert Gordon, and it is really he doing the stunt) jumps on a motorcycle and cuts in front 0 the locomotive racing it down the tracks just.a few yards in front of its snorting nose. Just in time he hurls himself off the cycle to the last switch between the two trains and collision, tackling it just as the crash seems unavoidable. The runaway rushes down a sideline and into a baggage car while the express goes its merry way unmolested.

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Reception

George T. Hardy of Motion Picture News gave the film a positive review, saying that it "registers far above average feature" an "is well produced in every respect". [3]

References

  1. "The Danger Signal". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  2. Variety 1925-07-22: Vol 79 Iss 10. Internet Archive. 1925-07-22. p. 32.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. Pardy, George (1925). Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1925). Motion Picture News, Inc. p. 847.

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