Red Lights Ahead (1936)
RIOTOUS! The intriguing story of the reckless Wallaces...plunging rashly down the dizzy course of their mad life...never heeding danger signals!
70 min
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.
- Release date
- November 29, 1936
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Andy Clyde as Grandpa Hopkins
- Lucile Gleason as Molly 'Ma' Wallace
- Roger Imhof as Pa Wallace
- Ben Alexander as George Wallace
- Ann Doran as Mary Wallace
- Frank Coghlan Jr. as Willie Wallace
- Paula Stone as Edna Wallace
- Jack Randall as Nordingham
- Sam Flint as Franklin Q. Whitney
- Eleanor Stewart as Celeste - the Maid
Crew
- Roland D. Reed · Director
- Robert Ellis · Writer
- Helen Logan · Writer
- George R. Batcheller · Producer
- M.A. Andersen · Cinematographer
- Dan Milner · Editor