Red Lights Ahead

Red Lights Ahead

RIOTOUS! The intriguing story of the reckless Wallaces...plunging rashly down the dizzy course of their mad life...never heeding danger signals!

1936 · 70 min · ★ 5.6 · Family, Comedy

A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian Andy Clyde starred as Grandpa Tom Hopkins who, after selling his junk business, moves in with daughter Molly (Lucille Gleason), her husband Ed (Roger Imhof), and their children Mary (Ann Doran), Edna (Paula Stone), George (Ben Alexander, and Willie (Frank Coghlan Jr.). Ed, who is a member of the town lodge "the Whales," is persuaded by Whitney (Sam Flint) the "Grand Harpoon," to buy $5,000 worth of shares in a promising gold mine, mortgaging the family home to do so. Soon the family is rich and everyone except Molly takes on airs.

Directed by Roland D. Reed · Written by Robert Ellis

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Andy Clyde Grandpa Hopkins
Lucile Gleason Molly 'Ma' Wallace
Roger Imhof Ed "Pa" Wallace
Ben Alexander George Wallace
Ann Doran Mary Wallace
Frank Coghlan Jr. Willie Wallace
Paula Stone Edna Wallace
Jack Randall Nordingham
Sam Flint Franklin Q. Whitney
Eleanor Stewart Celeste - the Maid
Herbert Clifton Perkins

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