"A Romance of the Shining Rails"
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
Social & External
The people behind it
Grant Withers
Bill White
Mary Astor
Lily Kulper
Regis Toomey
Jack Kulper
James Cagney
Ed 'Eddie' Bailey
Fred Kohler
Haley
J. Farrell MacDonald
Peg-Leg
Joan Blondell
Marie
Lillian Worth
Waitress
Walter Long
Bixby
Lucille Ward
Miss Astor - Bill's Landlady (uncredited)
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