The Fire Brigade (also known as Fire!) is 1926 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh.[2] The film stars May McAvoy and Charles Ray.[3] The Fire Brigade originally contained sequences shot in two-color Technicolor. A print of the film is preserved in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists archives.[4]
| The Fire Brigade | |
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| Directed by | William Nigh |
| Written by | Robert N. Lee (adaptation) Lotta Woods (titles) |
| Story by | Kate Corbaley |
| Starring | May McAvoy Charles Ray |
| Cinematography | John Arnold |
| Edited by | Harry L. Decker |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
| Budget | $249,556[1] |
The producers of the film contributed 25 per cent of the film's receipts toward a college for the instruction of fire-fighting officers.[5]
Plot
editTerry O'Neil (Charles Ray) is the youngest of a group of Irish-American firefighting brothers. He courts Helen Corwin (May McAvoy), the daughter of a politician whose crooked building contracts resulted in devastating blazes.
Cast
edit- May McAvoy as Helen Corwin
- Charles Ray as Terry O'Neil
- Holmes Herbert as James Corwin
- Tom O'Brien as Joe O'Neil
- Eugenie Besserer as Mrs. O'Neil
- Warner Richmond as Jim O'Neil
- Bert Woodruff as Captain O'Neil
- Vivia Ogden as Bridget
- DeWitt Jennings as Fire Chief Wallace
- Dan Mason as Peg Leg Murphy
- Erwin Connelly as Thomas Wainright
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Schatz, Thomas (1988). The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. Pantheon Books. p. 41. ISBN 0-394-53979-6.
- ^ Klepper, Robert K. (1999). Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies. McFarland. p. 452. ISBN 0-786-40595-3.
- ^ Butler, Ivan (1988). Silent Magic: Rediscovering The Silent Film Era. Ungar. p. 133. ISBN 0-804-42078-5.
- ^ The Fire Brigade SilentEra database
- ^ Movie review, The New York Times
External links
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- The Fire Brigade at IMDb
- Early Technicolor discoveries from the BFI National Archive on YouTube (The Fire Brigade clip starts at 0:19)
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