Conductor 1492

{{short description|1924 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Conductor 1492 | image = Conductor 1492 screenshot.png | caption = Doris May and Johnny Hines in ''Conductor 1492'' | director = Charles Hines | producer = | story = Johnny Hines | starring = Johnny Hines | music = | cinematography = Charles E. Gilson | editing = Clarence Kolster | studio = Warner Bros. Pictures | distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures | released = {{Film date|1924|01|12}} | runtime = 7 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = $107,000<ref name="warners">Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 2 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</ref> | gross = $334,000<ref name="warners"/> }}

'''''Conductor 1492''''' is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines and starring Johnny Hines. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.<ref>[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=1408 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Conductor 1492'']</ref><ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/ConductorFourteenNinet1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Conductor 1492''] at silentera.com</ref>

==Plot== As described in a review of the film in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=C. S. |author-link= |title=''Conductor 1492'': Newest Johnny Hines Feature Comedy for Warner Brothers Looks Like a Fine Audience Picture |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=66 |issue=8 |pages=669–70 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=1924-02-23 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor66feb/page/669/mode/1up |access-date=20 March 2021}}</ref> Terence O’Toole leaves his old home in Ireland to seek his fortune in America. He becomes "Conductor 1492" on a trolley car belonging to a system which both the president and vice-president are struggling to gain control. The outcome of this fight depends on two shares of stock which are missing and which if not found will bring disgrace to President Connelly. The villain produces two forged shares but Johnny's father saves the day by producing the real shares, which he bought a number of years before. In the meantime Terence has fallen in love with Connelly's daughter and he gets her as his reward.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Johnny Hines as Terry O'Toole *Doris May as Noretta Connelly *Dan Mason as Mike O'Toole *Ruth Renick as Edna Brown *Robert Cain as Richard Langford *Fred Esmelton as Denman Connelly *Byron Sage as Bobby Connelly *Michael Dark as James Stoddard *Dorothy Vernon as Mrs. Brown *Cameo as a dog *Billy Armstrong as Drunk at Party (uncredited) *Al Cooke as Boarding House Drunk (uncredited) *Dick Sutherland as Boarding House Hothead (uncredited) }}

==Box office== According to Warner Bros records the film earned $300,000 domestic and $34,000 foreign.<ref name="warners"/>

==Preservation== ''Conductor 1492'' film has been preserved at several archives, including the Library of Congress, George Eastman House, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.<ref>American Film Institute ''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress''</ref><ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2671/default.html "Conductor 1492"] ''Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog''</ref> This version has been broadcast on television and cable. A mute print was transferred onto 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions/United Artists in the 1950s, and preserved at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/mediahistory&tab=collection?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Motion%20pictures%20--%20Catalogues%22 1957 Movies from AAP Warner Bros. Features & Cartoons Sales Book Directed at TV]</ref>

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==External links== *{{AFI film|1408}} *{{IMDb title|0014797}} *[https://archive.org/details/Conductor_1492_1 Conductor 1492 part 1] available for free download at [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive] ([https://archive.org/details/Conductor_1492_2 pt.2], [https://archive.org/details/Conductor_1492_3 pt.3])

{{DEFAULTSORT:Conductor 1492}} Category:1924 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Warner Bros. films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Charles Hines Category:1924 comedy films Category:American silent comedy films Category:1924 American films Category:1924 English-language films Category:English-language comedy films