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The Switchtower

5.0 13 mins Drama   1913
Biograph Company  
Director(s): Anthony O'Sullivan

Release Date: 15 Sun, Jun 1913

"He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around the switch-tower. Thus at the crucial moment he was able to save his father's honor as a switchman, when the struggle between love and duty came and later to come to the aid of his parents in the hands of the desperate counterfeiters, eventually causing their capture." —Moving Picture World synopsis.

Casts of The Switchtower

Henry B. Walthall

as The Switchman

Lionel Barrymore

as First Counterfeiter

Claire McDowell

as The Switchman's Wife

Marion Emmons

as The Switchman's Son

Charles West

as Second Counterfeiter

John T. Dillon

as Third Counterfeiter

William A. Carroll

as First Federal Agent

Frank Evans

as Second Federal Agent

George Beranger

as A Tramp

Anthony O'Sullivan

as The Storekeeper

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