The Fire Brigade

The Fire Brigade
Directed by William Nigh
Produced by Louis B. Mayer
Irving Thalberg
Written by Kate Corbaley
Robert N. Lee (scenario)
Starring May McAvoy
Charles Ray
Cinematography John Arnold
Editing by Harry L. Decker
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) December 20, 1926
Running time 90 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

The Fire Brigade, also called Fire! (1926) is a silent film directed by William Nigh.

Film historian Kevin Brownlow used scenes from this film's climax to open his 13-hour documentary Hollywood (1980). The producers of he original film contributed 25 per cent of the film's receipts toward a college for the instruction of fire-fighting officers.[1]

The film originally contained sequences made in two-strip Technicolor. A print reportedly exists in the MGM archives.[2]

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.

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