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Red Lights Ahead

RIOTOUS! The intriguing story of the reckless Wallaces...plunging rashly down the dizzy course of their mad life...never heeding danger signals!
Nov 28, 1936 · 1h 10m
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Family
Comedy

PLOT

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.

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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
Directed by Roland D. Reed

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I)
Country
US

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