A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
Watch the official The Signal Tower 1924 trailer in HD below.
Virginia Valli as Sally Tolliver
Rockliffe Fellowes as Dave Tolliver
Frankie Darro as Sonny Tolliver
Wallace Beery as Joe Standish
James O. Barrows as Old Bill
J. Farrell MacDonald as Pete
Dot Farley as Cousin Gertie
Clarence Brown as Switch Man
Clarence Brown Director
James O. Spearing Writer
Wadsworth Camp Story
Ben F. Reynolds Director of Photography
Edward Schroeder Editor
Elmer Sheeley Art Direction
Charles Dorian Assistant Director
Bernard McConville Supervising Editor
Das rote Signal Trailer
Der Held im Wächterhaus Trailer
Der Signalturm Trailer
Das rote Signal Trailer
Signaltaarnet Trailer
La caseta de señales Trailer
L'homme du rail Trailer
Le veilleur de rail Trailer
A noyoi őrtorony Trailer
信号塔 Trailer
Ekspresem wśród grzmotów i błyskawic Trailer
A Barraca do Agulheiro Trailer
Denmark 26 December 1924
Finland 24 August 1925
France 24 October 1924
Hungary 11 April 1925
Portugal 26 January 1926
United States 19 July 1924
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23 March 1928
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman).
21 May 1925
Mrs. Katherine Manners loves her three grown daughters who are in boarding school. When she plans a party for them at home, they phone from the school that they cannot come because they are too busy.
08 March 1920
Professional forger Bill Butters realizes one day that the police are closing in on him, and convinces his daughter Peggy to flee.
06 February 1931
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
06 July 1929
On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happily.
04 December 1924
When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.
15 December 1918
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
21 April 1928
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior.
15 September 1926
Joe Ryan, a veteran train engineer, is demoted to a flagman position after a disastrous crash-- one caused by his cowardly and opportunistic partner.
25 November 1911
Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in the city.
04 February 1930
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
24 July 1927
Peter Olsen, a young social outcast who lives alone on a rundown farm and raises vegetables for a living, finds his only consolation in liquor, though Dorcas Chatham, daughter of the general store owner, begs him to forego this indulgence.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from The Signal Tower:
Director - Clarence Brown Starring - Virginia Valli Rockcliffe Fellowes Wallace Beery Railroad drama. A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his ...
Frankie Darro was an amazing child actor as evidenced here in a clip from The Signal Tower. With Frankie in this scene are Virginia Valli and Rockcliffe ...
My visit to The Signal Tower in Arbroath Scotland.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1924:
20 September 1924
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends.
21 August 1924
Fred Holme is looking for candidates for the beauty contest in his London newspaper. In Rome he discovered the most beautiful woman in the world, the young arts and craftswoman Lucia Sarlo.
01 March 1924
A scientist attempts to transplant a gorilla's brain into a man.
01 April 1924
A Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.
02 February 1924
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
07 December 1924
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
20 January 1924
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie.
09 March 1924
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
01 June 1924
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to some traveling gypsies, Mary shows up and tells them that her little sister just won a prize at the baby show.
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