It is probably the most important film ever made about firemen, before Ron Howard's BACKDRAFT, back in 1991. As far as I know and also FIREHOUSE, a TV movie from 1973, starring Richard Roundtree. But thoe latest films about firemen will never make this very silent era film lousy, on the contrary. And by the way, I want to point out something; I noticed that silent movies brought story telling, or simply stories, far different in the screenplay than the talkies period. During the silent era, there was more romantic, tragic moments and a movie could also show different periods of a story, decade by decade; yes this was very very different, even between the twenties and the thirties - talky period. During the silent decades, images were so powerful - of course it was because there was no talking- that only faces movements really eplained a situation, or acts. No talks and that changed many things.
Review of The Third Alarm
