The Still Alarm
Cast & Crew
Colin Campbell
Thomas Santschi
Bessie Eyton
Eugenie Besserer
William Scott
Fritzi Brunette
Film Details
Synopsis
"Bird," a clerk in Fordham's drugstore, agrees to place a large sum of money in the store's safe for a traveler, but when the man requests a bottle of medicine, Bird poisons the remedy, and the visitor is found dead in his hotel. Bird flees with the money, but several years later he returns, the money long since squandered. Unless Fordham's daughter Eleanor marries him, he threatens, he will tell the police that Fordham committed the crime. Eleanor's sweetheart, fireman Jack Manley, is puzzled by her involvement with Bird and decides to investigate. By chance, he meets an old alcoholic who once worked for Fordham and possesses the evidence to clear the druggist and convict Bird. The latter, fearing that he will be exposed, cuts the signal wires to Fordham's house and then sets it on fire, but Eleanor telephones the fire station, and the entire department is soon on the scene. Jack risks his life to save Eleanor and the old drunk, who finally exposes Bird. Soon afterwards, Jack and Eleanor climb aboard the fire engine to ride to their own wedding.
Director
Colin Campbell
Cast
Thomas Santschi
Bessie Eyton
Eugenie Besserer
William Scott
Fritzi Brunette
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Notes
Wid's suggested that Frank Clark May have played "Doc" Wilbur. Selig produced the film in their Los Angeles studios and then sold the negative to the Pioneer Film Corp., which handled the film's state rights distribution. Reviewers disagreed on certain plot details. Advertisements claimed that the fire scenes were processed "by an entirely new method of tinting and toning, which shows them in actual colors." One source credited Fritzi Brunette with the role of "Eleanor Fordham." The film was remade by Universal in 1926, starring Helene Chadwick and directed by Edward Laemmle. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.5393.)
