Rule G


1915

Film Details

Release Date
Mar 4, 1915
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Blazon Film Producing Co.
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story series "Keeping John Barleycorn off the Tracks" by Rufus Steele in The Saturday Evening Post (beginning 4 Apr 1914).

Synopsis

In a railroad machine shop, a drunken foreman accidentally knocks out a youth. Revived with alcohol, the staggering youth gets caught in the giant gam wheel and is crushed to death. After an investigation by Silent Smith, the railroad detective, the railroad adopts "Rule G," which prohibits drinking during duty. When the foreman and other employees are fired for drinking in a "blind pig," or illegal saloon, they plan revenge. The foreman finds Sandy Weston, an old engineer whose daughter Myra is loved by both the foreman and a young machinist, drunkenly sleeping at his engine. After setting the switches, the foreman opens the throttle so that the locomotive crashes into the newly formed Railroad Men's Club. The men try to blow up a train, but a new safety device invented by Myra's machinist suitor prevents this. After strikers, led by the foreman, are drenched with water from a locomotive hose, the machinist bests the foreman in a fight. The employees accept Rule G, and the railroad is soon awarded a medal for safety.

Film Details

Release Date
Mar 4, 1915
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Blazon Film Producing Co.
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story series "Keeping John Barleycorn off the Tracks" by Rufus Steele in The Saturday Evening Post (beginning 4 Apr 1914).

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This was the first film of the Blazon Film Producing Co., which was located in San Francisco. The film was approved by prominent railroad heads who also appeared in the film. Southern Pacific Railroad supplied locations, equipment and employees to act in the film, including a general manager, a shop detective, engineers and workmen. Most of the cast were not trained actors.