Telephone Operator
Cast & Crew
Scott Pembroke
Judith Allen
Grant Withers
Warren Hymer
Alice White
Ronnie Cosbey
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Synopsis
Soon after telephone linesmen Red and Shorty arrive in Riverdale to work on the wires leading to a new dam, they meet telephone operators Helen Molloy and Dottie Stengal. Although Dottie and Shorty are immediately attracted to each other, Helen rebuffs Red's flirtation. The night of a bad rainstorm, Helen asks Red to help her retrieve her friend Sylvia Sommers, the wife of Helen's boss Tom, from the secluded cabin of Pat Campbell, Sylvia's lover. When Sommers comes looking for his wife, Helen trades places with her and Sylvia escapes with Red. When Helen declines Sommers' gallant offer to take her back to town, he assumes the worst of her and fires her the next day. Red is also fired when he slugs line foreman Heaver for making snide remarks about Helen. A short time later, the dam breaks, and Campbell relays the message to the town. Helen risks her life in the flooding telephone office when she takes over the switchboard and warns neighboring towns of the encroaching flood waters. Red and Shorty assist her by fixing downed telephone lines, while Dottie joins her at the switchboard. As the water in the office rises, Red and Shorty arrive in a boat and Dottie leaves with Shorty while Helen tries to contact a neighboring hospital. Finally, as Helen and Red escape on a downed telephone pole and joke that they had better search for a justice of the peace who can swim, they decide to have their honeymoon in Niagara Falls.
Director
Scott Pembroke
Cast
Judith Allen
Grant Withers
Warren Hymer
Alice White
Ronnie Cosbey
Pat Flaherty
Greta Granstedt
William Haade
Cornelius Keefe
Dorothy Vaughn
Walter Mcgrail
Ethel Jackson
Michael Gover
Crew
Scott Darling
Scott R. Dunlap
Scott R. Dunlap
W. B. Eason
E. R. Hickson
George E. Kann
John Krafft
Abe Meyer
Russell Schoengarth
W. C. Smith
Gilbert Warrenton
Lon Young
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Notes
Reviews commented on the extensive use of newsreel footage of floods and storms in the film's dam-breaking sequence.
