Conductor 1492

1924 Comedy 70 minutes Directed by Charles Hines

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About Conductor 1492

An Irish immigrant becomes a streetcar conductor, number 1492. Crooks try to take the company. He fights them off and courts the boss's daughter. Johnny Hines plays the conductor. Doris May plays the daughter.

Cast & crew

More about Conductor 1492

Charles Hines directed. Warner Bros. produced and released it on January 12, 1924. Clarence Kolster edited. Dan Mason, Robert Cain, Ruth Renick, and Fred Esmelton are billed with Hines and May.

Themes

  • A new conductor on a city line
  • Crooks after the streetcar company
  • The boss's daughter
  • conductor
  • streetcar
  • 1492
  • Johnny Hines
  • Irish immigrant

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • The director is the star's brother.
  • The number in the title is his conductor's badge.
  • A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-conductor-1492.
  • Warner Bros. handled it, not First National.

Scenes

  • He takes the conductor's job and the badge number 1492.
  • He breaks the attempt to grab the company.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-conductor-1492)