Roaring Rails

Roaring Rails

60 mins | Drama, Action | Sept. 20, 1924

A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.

Roaring Rails

60 mins | Drama, Action | Sept. 20, 1924

Roaring Rails
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
Producers Hunt Stromberg Productions
Original title Roaring Rails
Directors Tom Forman
Writers Doris Dorn, Hunt Stromberg

Cast

Harry Carey

as Big Bill Benson

Frankie Darro

as Little Bill

Edith Roberts

as Nora Burke

Wallace MacDonald

as Malcolm Gregory

Frank Hagney

as Red Burley

Duke R. Lee

as John McFarlane