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 |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent English intertitles |
Budget | $249,556[1] |
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 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
Terry 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
- 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
References
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- ↑ The Fire Brigade SilentEra database
- ↑ The New York Times movie review
External links
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Categories:
- 1926 films
- 1920s drama films
- American disaster films
- American drama films
- American films
- American silent feature films
- Black-and-white films
- Films directed by William Nigh
- Films shot in Los Angeles, California
- Firefighting films
- Irish-American media
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Silent films in color
- 1920s silent drama film stubs