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Danger Lights

1931 · US

Directed by George B. Seitz

A tug of war between two locomotives, a landslide, and a run to Chicago with an injured man aboard, with the engines and crews real and working on the Milwaukee Road in Montana. The plot around them is standard: Dan Thorn, a division superintendent, ugly and honest, gives a drifter a job and does not notice that the drifter and his own fiancée are falling in love. Louis Wolheim is Dan, and died a few months later; Jean Arthur and Robert Armstrong. Released in a widescreen version few theatres could show. RKO, 1931.

Drama · Adventure

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1931 · Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Public Domain Source

Wikimedia Commons · FM-54; File:Danger Lights, 1930, original version, HR.webm; 1920x1080

Video: George B. Seitz · Credit: YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yrnDDa3QMI – View/save archived versions on archive.org · Public domain · Source: File page

Cast & Crew

George B. Seitz · DirectorLouis Wolheim · Dan ThornRobert Armstrong · Larry Doyle

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Cast

Principal players
L

Louis Wolheim

Dan Thorn

R

Robert Armstrong

Larry Doyle

J

Jean Arthur

Mary Ryan

Hugh Herbert

Hugh Herbert

Professor

Frank Sheridan

Frank Sheridan

Ed Ryan

Robert Edeson

Robert Edeson

Tom Johnson

A

Alan Roscoe

Jim

W

William P. Burt

Chief Dispatcher

Jim Farley

Jim Farley

Joe Geraghty

James Donlan

James Donlan

Picnic Barker (uncredited)

Frank Mills

Frank Mills

Hobo (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

Lee Phelps

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Crew

James Ashmore Creelman

writer

Karl Struss

cinematographer

John W. Boyle

cinematographer

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