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'The Fire Brigade' (also known as 'Fire!') is 1926 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh. The film stars May McAvoy and Charles Ray. 'The Fire Brigade' originally contained sequences shot in two-color Technicolor. A print of the film is preserved in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists archives.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FireBrigade1926.html 'The Fire Brigade' SilentEra database]

', 1926

The producers of the film contributed 25 per cent of the film's receipts toward a college for the instruction of fire-fighting officers.[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9503E6D61131EE32A25752C2A9649D946795D6CF Movie review], 'The New York Times'

Plot



Terry O'Neil (Charles Ray) is the youngest of a group of Irish-American firefighting brothers. He courts Helen Corwin (May McAvoy), the daughter of a politician whose crooked building contracts resulted in devastating blazes.

Cast



* May McAvoy as Helen Corwin

* Charles Ray as Terry O'Neil

* Holmes Herbert as James Corwin

* Tom O'Brien as Joe O'Neil

* Eugenie Besserer as Mrs. O'Neil

* Warner Richmond as Jim O'Neil

* Bert Woodruff as Captain O'Neil

* Vivia Ogden as Bridget

* DeWitt Jennings as Fire Chief Wallace

* Dan Mason as Peg Leg Murphy

* Erwin Connelly as Thomas Wainright

See also



*List of early color feature films

References




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