# The Fire Brigade

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{{short description|1926 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Fire Brigade
| image          = File:The Fire Brigade.jpg
 
| caption        = 
| director       = [William Nigh](/source/William_Nigh)
| story          = [Kate Corbaley](/source/Kate_Corbaley)
| writer         = [Robert N. Lee](/source/Robert_N._Lee) (adaptation)<br>[Lotta Woods](/source/Lotta_Woods) (titles)
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [May McAvoy](/source/May_McAvoy)<br>[Charles Ray](/source/Charles_Ray_(actor))
| music          = 
| cinematography = [John Arnold](/source/John_Arnold_(cinematographer))
| editing        = [Harry L. Decker](/source/Harry_L._Decker)
| distributor    = [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer](/source/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
| released       = {{Film date|1926|12|20}}
| runtime        = 90 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = Silent<br>English intertitles
| budget         = $249,556<ref>{{cite book|last=Schatz|first=Thomas |title=The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era|year=1988|publisher=Pantheon Books|isbn=0-394-53979-6|page=41}}</ref>
}}

'''''The Fire Brigade''''' (also known as '''''Fire!''''') is 1926 American [silent](/source/silent_film) [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [William Nigh](/source/William_Nigh).<ref>{{cite book|last=Klepper|first=Robert K. |title=Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies|year=1999|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0-786-40595-3|page=452}}</ref>  The film stars [May McAvoy](/source/May_McAvoy) and [Charles Ray](/source/Charles_Ray_(actor)).<ref>{{cite book|last=Butler|first=Ivan|title=Silent Magic: Rediscovering The Silent Film Era|year=1988|publisher=Ungar|isbn=0-804-42078-5|page=133}}</ref> ''The Fire Brigade'' originally contained sequences shot in two-color [Technicolor](/source/Technicolor). A print of the film is preserved in the [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer](/source/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)/[United Artists](/source/United_Artists) archives.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FireBrigade1926.html ''The Fire Brigade'' SilentEra database]</ref>
[[File:The Fire Brigade ad in Exhibitor's Herald The Independent Film Trade Paper (weekly, September 18, 1926 to December 11, 1926) - Internet Archive - exhibitorsherald27unse (page 1384 crop).jpg|thumb|359x359px|The Fire Brigade ad in ''[Exhibitors Herald](/source/Exhibitors_Herald)'', 1926]]
The producers of the film contributed 25 per cent of the film's receipts toward a college for the instruction of fire-fighting officers.<ref>[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9503E6D61131EE32A25752C2A9649D946795D6CF Movie review], ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)''</ref>

==Plot==
Terry O'Neil (Charles Ray) is the youngest of a group of Irish-American [firefighting](/source/firefighting) brothers. He courts Helen Corwin (May McAvoy), the daughter of a [politician](/source/politician) whose [crooked](/source/Corruption) building [contract](/source/contract)s resulted in devastating blazes.

==Cast==
* [May McAvoy](/source/May_McAvoy) as Helen Corwin 
* [Charles Ray](/source/Charles_Ray_(actor)) as Terry O'Neil 
* [Holmes Herbert](/source/Holmes_Herbert) as James Corwin
* [Tom O'Brien](/source/Tom_O'Brien_(American_actor_born_1890)) as Joe O'Neil 
* [Eugenie Besserer](/source/Eugenie_Besserer) as Mrs. O'Neil 
* [Warner Richmond](/source/Warner_Richmond) as Jim O'Neil 
* [Bert Woodruff](/source/Bert_Woodruff) as Captain O'Neil 
* [Vivia Ogden](/source/Vivia_Ogden) as Bridget 
* [DeWitt Jennings](/source/DeWitt_Jennings) as Fire Chief Wallace 
* [Dan Mason](/source/Dan_Mason) as Peg Leg Murphy 
* [Erwin Connelly](/source/Erwin_Connelly) as Thomas Wainright

==See also==
*[List of early color feature films](/source/List_of_early_color_feature_films)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category|The Fire Brigade}}
*{{IMDb title|0016874}}
*{{YouTube|a46tD6sjD58|Early Technicolor discoveries from the BFI National Archive}} (''The Fire Brigade'' clip starts at 0:19)

{{William Nigh}}

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