The Return of Casey Jones (1933) | Full Movie | Charles Starrett, Ruth Hall, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a railroad engineer, too, but one day the train he is piloting loses its brakes and wrecks. Jimmy tries to fix it but has to jump off at the last minute. Unfortunately, stories begin to circulate that he turned coward and jumped off the train first, letting it be destroyed rather than try to save it. He sets out to clear his name.

Director: John P. McCarthy (as J.P. McCarthy)
Writers: Harry L. Fraser (adaptation) (as Harry O. Jones), John Johns (novel)
Stars: Charles Starrett, Ruth Hall, George 'Gabby' Hayes

[ericberman]

I knew Charley Starrett from 1959 until he died in 1986 - great guy!!! I was nine years old when I met Charley when my family moved to Rockledge Terrace in Laguna Beach - Charley and his wife Mary lived three houses down the street. My dad had been a big fan of The Durango Kid back in the 1940's and became great friends with Charley. Charley's favorite pastime was upland bird hunting and he and I used to compare his springer spaniel "Blaze" and my black Lab "Apache", after I began hunting upland birds when I was fourteen. Charley and Mary had a cabin up at June Lake, CA; Charley always vacationed there in the summer for trout fishing and again in the fall for bird hunting. I used to do yard work for Charley in the late fall and early winter - he referred to me as his "Swamper" and paid well ($1.50/hr for a young boy in the early 1960s, was BIG MONEY!). He and Mary would always give Christmas presents to my brother and me. My dad started making homebrew beer in 1959, but when he brewed his first batch he did not have a hygrometer to measure alcohol content and thus determine when fermentation had ceased - as consequence, he bottled his first batch "green" (still fermenting). With my brother and I helping (we took turns running the syphon hose and operating the manual capping machine), Dad bottled up somewhere around 30-40 quarts and placed them in the downstairs garage (our house was a split-level), At about 2 AM, the "green" beer in those bottles had - thru fermentation - produced enough carbon dioxide gas to over-pressurize the Brew 102 and Olympia brown glass quart bottles that we had used - and those bottles started bursting (sounded like a small handgun going off). The beer then flowed out under the closed garage door and down the street past Charley's house. Since the beer was still "green", the beer "river" actually had a foam head and smelled strongly of malt. Charley showed up around 10 AM, laughing, and told my dad that as soon as my dad could bottle a batch that did not explode, Charley would happily come over to drink homebrew.

[johnbockelie]

The inspiration for Allan Hale Jr. Show of the late 50's. Didn't know this film existed.

[jeanettecook]

" They were going down the grade,
Making 90 miles an hour,
When the whistle broke into a scream,
He was found in the wreck
With his hand on the throttle,
And was scalded to death by the steam.

"Now, ladies, you must take warning,
From this day now and on,
Never speak harsh words to your true loving husband,
He may leave you and never return."

I learned this ballad when I was young, and at one time, I could play it on the violin.

[juliewheatley]

Where is alan hayle . Cant get used to this new one or did he come 1st

[thomasrtaylor]

Thomas Randall Tyler and Casey Jones the TV series in the movie in the song written by Johnny Cash Casey Jones in the engineer call Johnny Cash