Fire Fighters

Fire Fighters (1922)

The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.

Date of release
1922-10-08
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (6)
Runtime
22m
Genres
Family, Comedy
Director
Robert F. McGowan, Tom McNamara
Collection
Our Gang: The Roach/Pathé silents (1922-1928)

Casting

Interesting facts

Fire Fighters is a silent short film, the second entry in Hal Roach's Our Gang series. Directed by Robert F. McGowan and Tom McNamara, the two-reel short was released to theaters in October 1922 by Pathé.

Production notes

There are a total of ten children in the fire department: two girls and seven boys. There are three regular actors — Ernie Morrison, Allen Hoskins and Jackie Condon —and one regular actress, Peggy Cartwright. There are also four additional boys and one other girl. There is some conflict concerning the identity of these last five child actors and actress.

This Our Gang entry marks the debut of Allen Hoskins, who portrayed the character "Farina" until 1931, making him the longest tenured member of the gang.

Plot elements of Fire Fighters were reused in The Fourth Alarm (1926) and Hook and Ladder (1932).

When television rights for the original silent Pathé Our Gang comedies were sold to National Telepix and other distributors, several episodes were retitled. This film was released as The Mischief Makers in 1960 under the title Little Firemen: two-thirds of the original film was included. The film was also released as an episode of the series Those Lovable Scallawags With Their Gangs under the title Fire Works.

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