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Red Lights Ahead(1936)
Status: Released
Date: 1936-11-28
52%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 10m
RIOTOUS! The intriguing story of the reckless Wallaces...plunging rashly down the dizzy course of their mad life...never heeding danger signals!
Overview:
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian Andy Clyde starred as Grandpa Tom Hopkins who, after selling his junk business, moves in with daughter Molly (Lucille Gleason), her husband Ed (Roger Imhof), and their children Mary (Ann Doran), Edna (Paula Stone), George (Ben Alexander, and Willie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Ed, who is a member of the town lodge "the Whales," is persuaded by Whitney (Sam Flint) the "Grand Harpoon," to buy $5,000 worth of shares in a promising gold mine, mortgaging the family home to do so. Soon the family is rich and everyone except Molly takes on airs.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I)
Movie: Red Lights Ahead
Top 10 Billed Cast
Andy Clyde
Grandpa Hopkins
Lucile Gleason
Molly 'Ma' Wallace
Roger Imhof
Ed "Pa" Wallace
Ben Alexander
George Wallace
Ann Doran
Mary Wallace
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Willie Wallace
Paula Stone
Edna Wallace
Jack Randall
Nordingham
Sam Flint
Franklin Q. Whitney
Eleanor Stewart
Celeste - the Maid
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Overview
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian Andy Clyde starred as Grandpa Tom Hopkins who, after selling his junk business, moves in with daughter Molly (Lucille Gleason), her husband Ed (Roger Imhof), and their children Mary (Ann Doran), Edna (Paula Stone), George (Ben Alexander, and Willie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Ed, who is a member of the town lodge "the Whales," is persuaded by Whitney (Sam Flint) the "Grand Harpoon," to buy $5,000 worth of shares in a promising gold mine, mortgaging the family home to do so. Soon the family is rich and everyone except Molly takes on airs.
Release Date
1936-11-28
Average
5.2
Rating:
2.6 startsTagline
RIOTOUS! The intriguing story of the reckless Wallaces...plunging rashly down the dizzy course of their mad life...never heeding danger signals!
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