Descriptive Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures (1926)

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166 Class 8 — Dramas KEEL NO. TITLE PRODUCER The young switch-tender, Johnny Buckley, saves the girl, and the romance lietween the president's daughter and the engineer's son begins. Raymond MoKim, secretary to the president, a man with an unsavory past, loves Esther, but his love is not returned. He seeks to force his attentions upon her, but she is rescued by Johnny. In the engine cab with Bill Buckley is his new fireman, Jack Smith, who holds a grudge against him. To get his engineer in wrong, he changes the signal lights at the main line switch. Acting on his train orders, Johhny tries to stop his father's train at the main line, but finds, to his terror, that he has given the green signal to go ahead. Johnny jumps astride his horse, races to the nearby forest and sets fire to the dry bush. In an instant the entire mountainside is ablaze and a living wall of fire sweeping toward the railroad. Engineer Buckley sees the fire and stops his train just before it crashes into the oncoming Midnight Express. A thrilling melodrama, well acted, ably directed and full of sustained suspense. 4723 feet standard length — on 5 reels Rental $7.50 8132 Code SEFI Thundering Hoofs F.B.O. Featuring Fred Thomson, Chas. Mailes, Ann May and Bill Lozvery Dave Marshall is the son of a big ranchman. Thru the plotting of Luke Severn, who is head of a smuggling band on the Mexican border, he is placed in a wrong light before Don Juan Estrada, a wealthy Spanish gentleman, and his daughter. Carmelita. Early in the story, Marshall is forced by Severn's cruelty to fight for the protection of the horse Silver King. He wins the fight and the horse. Later the horse is stolen by Severn and sold for "bull bait." The big scene is set in a Mexican bull-fight arena where Silver King is about to be gored by a ferocious bull. But Marshall trailing his beloved horse finally finds him in the arena and hurdling down over tiers of boxes and leaping across the heads of the crowd he grapples with the bull and finally throws him and saves the horse. He also wins the love of Carmelita whom he had previously rescued from a runaway stage coach. Later Severn is branded as the leader of the smugglers. An unusual story and extremely entertaining. Renty of thrilling action with laughs and chuckles scattered through it with a lavish hand. The cast is excellent and the plot smooth and well developed. 4889 feet standard length — on 5 reels Rental $7.50 8133 Code SEFO The Spirit of the U. S. A. F.B.O. Featuring Mary Carr and Johnny Walker Squire Burrows covets the farm of Thomas Gains and plots to obtain possession of it. Having failed to interest Gains in his ofifer for the farm he plans to have Gains' son, Silas, marry Zelda, his daughter. Silas is flattered at the possibility of possessing the prettiest girl in the county and soon becomes engaged to her. For maximum enjoyment