A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
Cinematography
Stunning train-mounted camera work that'll make your palms sweat.
Acting
Wallace Beery's hulking, sweaty menace without a single spoken word.
Director
Clarence Brown
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 'railroad film' craze — trains symbolized both American progress and masculine vulnerability in 1920s cinema.
Frankie Darro (Sonny) grew up to star in 1930s gangster films; this was his actual childhood, acting opposite his screen parents.
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