This short, otherwise unremarkable feature is of some interest because of the way that it unabashedly caters to the tastes that it perceived in its audiences. Besides combining the elements of the risqué 'blue' movies of the era with the popularity of movies about fires, it also attempted to use the combination to get extra mileage out of it. The movie's title summarises the setup, and most of the footage shows firefighters using ladders to rescue stage girls, clad in portions of their costumes, from an upper level. Although it all seems pretty tame by today's standards, it no doubt provided its male viewers with some brief moments of excitement as the various women hurried down the ladders with their costumes in disarray.

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by mea...

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...

Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a so...

A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the ...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...
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An experimental silent film made with a team of three. Humanity is being wiped out and the last peo...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the ra...

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...

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A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

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