Red Lights Ahead

Red Lights Ahead

70 mins | Comedy, Family | Nov. 28, 1936

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.

Red Lights Ahead

70 mins | Comedy, Family | Nov. 28, 1936

Red Lights Ahead
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.
Producers Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I)
Original title Red Lights Ahead
Directors Roland D. Reed
Writers Helen Logan, Robert Ellis

Cast

Andy Clyde

as Grandpa Hopkins

Lucile Gleason

as Molly 'Ma' Wallace

Roger Imhof

as Ed "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

Herbert Clifton

as Perkins