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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.

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Release : 1936
Rating : 5.7
Studio : Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation (I), 
Crew : Director,  Screenplay, 
Cast : Andy Clyde Lucile Gleason Roger Imhof Ben Alexander Ann Doran
Genre : Comedy Family

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Reviews

Plantiana
2018/08/30

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

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TinsHeadline
2018/08/30

Touches You

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Exoticalot
2018/08/30

People are voting emotionally.

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Murphy Howard
2018/08/30

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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ksf-2
2018/02/05

Bickering kids. lots of running up and down stairs. Pa Wallace goes off to his lodge meeting, and it took 15 minutes just for that to happene. He meets some out of towners, and the Wallaces invest in a gold mine...What could go wrong ?? Lots of loud yelling, although talkies had been around for six years already. Ma Wallace is Lucille Gleason, real life wife of stumbling, bumbling detective James Gleason in so many detective stories. The middle part of the film really drags on with nothingness ... while we wait to see what happens with the gold mines. Directed by Roland Reed... he only directed SEVEN films... one in the 1920s, four in the 1930s, one in the 1940s, and one in the 1950s. How odd. and this is from Chesterfield Pictures... they were only around for twelve years, but put out TONS of films. Sound and picture quality are pretty terrible. If there's a good copy somewhere, it could use a restoration. There are a couple of funny bits -- all of Pa's lodge costumes. Some clever jokes. All done in 70 minutes.

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bkoganbing
2013/10/14

Poverty Row studio Chesterfield Productions went out of business after this film was released. And typically it was a remake of another film In The Money that was done three years earlier.But these minor studios occasionally came up with some decent films and Red Lights Ahead was one of them. It has horrible production values, but the cast gave good performances led by Andy Clyde who made a lot of money in the junk business.Turns out he's going to need it. He's got himself nothing but junk in the way of grandchildren. Ann Doran, Paula Stone, Ben Alexander, and Frank Coghlan are four prize packages who are four millstones around the neck of Clyde's daughter Lucille Gleason. Her husband Roger Imhof is a decent sort who works hard and his big pleasure is the Order of the Whales Lodge.And Imhoff sees a golden opportunity in gold mine stock that the visiting Grand Harpoon of the lodge Sam Flint and his young associate future cowboy star Jack Randall are selling. Randall has been dating Stone and has been laying the ground work for Flint to come in and hook Imhoff.The kids see a path to easy money to continue their wastrel lives and urge father to buy. It takes Clyde to straighten the whole mess out in the end.A major studio probably could have done more with this film, but it still holds up well as good entertainment and is quite the advertisement for hard work and thrift. And one something looks too good to be true, it probably isn't.

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MartinHafer
2010/10/11

My dislike for this movie isn't because the story plays like a sitcom--after all, it's a simple B-movie with modest pretenses. What bothered me were the terrible characters--they were simply awful in their one-dimensionality. In addition, they aren't particularly likable--and it makes for tough viewing.The film begins in a household where everyone is supposed to be kooky. However, they really come off as self-involved idiots--and every one of the grown children in this home needed to be slapped and told to get a job! What a bunch of lazy jerks---I was ready to turn off the film ten minutes into the picture! The plot involves Dad getting a business opportunity to strike it rich by investing in a gold mine. However, it's just too good to be true and the promises of almost instant wealth are obviously a scam to anyone with half a brain--unfortunately, he, his wife and kids all lack that half a brain. So, it's up to Grandpa (Andy Clyde) to straighten things out for his idiot brood. Overall, the film is barely competent and a time-waster--thanks to a script written by a 9 year-old squirrel.

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Zontar-2
2006/07/10

This slight comedy looks at the Wallace household, weakly governed by a genial old fool (Roger Imhof) who takes pride in serving as his fraternal lodge doorman. His many offspring are a mildly eccentric, self-absorbed lot. The script dwells on their trivial tribulations (and chucks in some unexpected digs at spiritualism.) Just as one gets comfortable with the characters, the writers inject the creaky cliché of having the clan falsely believe they've come into a fortune. Non-hilarity ensues, and the preposterous denouement sours whatever goodwill the actors have generated.RED LIGHTS is not unwatchable, but I question if even the cast's descendants would sit thru it twice.

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