Silent film with intertitles and musical soundtrack. Ralph Lewis, Sidney Franklin, Hugh Allan, Jean Arthur, George Chesebro. Credits from container and Internet Movie Database. Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1926.
Contents:
1922 (20 min.) Cops / First National Pictures ; written & directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline ; with Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, 1920 (24 min.) -- Cops / First National Pictures ; written & directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline ; with Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, 1922 (20 min.)
Summary:
"Jovial Joe" Ryan, a crack railroad engineer for 20 years, discovers during a card game with his pal, "Roadhouse" Rosen, that his eyes are failing him and he is becoming colorblind. Bert Steel, Ryan's fireman, who is in love with his daughter, Grace, is angered when Ryan passes the examination, ruining his chance for promotion and winning Grace. Ryan confides to Bert that he needs his assistance in watching the block signals; and when Bert misinforms him, he is demoted to signalman because of a wreck and Bert is promoted to engineer. Ryan, meanwhile, invents an automatic signaling device; and though Bert attempts to sabotage his plan to test it, the device successfully prevents another train wreck"--AFI website.
Series:
Sunrise Silents presents ; v. I, no. 3
OCLC:
(OCoLC)71359347
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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