Flaming Waters

{{short description|1925 film}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Flaming Waters | image = Flaming Waters poster.jpg

| caption = Poster | director = F. Harmon Weight | producer = | writer = Fred Myton<br>E. Lloyd Sheldon | narrator = | starring = Malcolm McGregor<br>Pauline Garon<br>Mary Carr | music = | cinematography = William Marshall | editing = | studio = Associated Arts Corporation | distributor = Film Booking Offices of America | released = {{film date|1925|12|13}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Flaming Waters''''' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Malcolm McGregor, Pauline Garon, and Mary Carr.<ref>Munden p. 251</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{Citation |last=Pardy |first=George T. |author-link= |title=Pre-Release Review of Features: ''Flaming Waters'' |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=33 |issue=5 |pages=598 |date=30 January 1926 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City, New York |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpic33moti/page/n613/mode/1up |access-date=1 February 2023}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Danny O'Neil moves to Oil City with his mother, seeking to find Jasper Thorne, who swindled his mother. He gets the best of Thorne in an oil deal and buys a well that turns out to be a gusher, the spray from its overflow covering the area surrounding their ranch. A lamp thrown by Thorne ignites the oil. Danny's foolish friend Midge Botsford opens the gate on the reservoir, and a flaming flood results. Danny rescues his mother and Doris Laidlaw, and he wins the young woman's heart.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Malcolm McGregor as Danny O'Neil * Pauline Garon as Doris Laidlaw * Mary Carr as Mrs. Mary O'Neil * John Miljan as Jasper Thorne * John Gough as Midge Botsford * Mayme Kelso as Mrs. Rutherford * John Elliott as Justin Laidlaw * Tom McGuire as Officer McGrath * Michael D. Moore as Dan O'Neil as a boy }}

==Preservation== *A print is preserved in the Library of Congress archive.<ref>[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1844/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''Flaming Waters'']</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

==External links== {{commons category|Flaming Waters}} * {{IMDb title|0132960}} * {{TCMDb title|id=2180654}} * {{AFI film|9091}} * {{Internet Archive film|FlamingWatersForYT|Flaming Waters}}(excerpt)

Category:1925 films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Film Booking Offices of America films Category:Films directed by F. Harmon Weight Category:1925 English-language films Category:1925 American films