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The Signal Tower (1924)

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Film details

Featuring

Virginia Valli Rockliffe Fellowes Frankie Darro
Director

Clarence Brown
Country

USA
Year

1924
Genre

Drama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Dave Tolliver, a signal tower man on a mountain railroad, takes in his relief man, Joe Standish, as a lodger, Standish makes advances to Dave's wife while Dave is busy saving a passenger train from a runaway freight train. Eventually Joe is shot by Dave's wife, and Dave is a hero for averting a major rail disaster.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Sally Tolliver
    
    Virginia Valli
  - Dave Tolliver
    
    Rockliffe Fellowes
  - Sonny Tolliver
    
    Frankie Darro
  - Joe Standish
    
    Wallace Beery
  - old Bill
    
    James O. Barrows
  - Pete, the engineer
    
    J. Farrell Macdonald
  - Gertie
    
    Dot Farley
  - [switchman]
    
    Clarence Brown
  - [photograph of Gertie's fiancé]
    
    Charles Dorian
  - [the dog]
    
    Jitney
Credits
- Direction:
  - Director
    
    Clarence Brown
  - Assistant Director
    
    Charles Dorian
  - [2nd Assistant]
    
    Robert Wyler
  Production:
  - ©/Production Company
    
    Universal Pictures Corporation
  - Production Company
    
    Jewel Productions
  - Presented by
    
    Carl Laemmle
  Writing:
  - Scenario
    
    James O. Spearing
  - Original Story
    
    Wadsworth Camp
  Photography:
  - Photography
    
    Ben Reynolds
  Design:
  - [Set Decorator]
    
    Kay Knudsen

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