''Telephone Operator'' is a 1937 American

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directed by Scott Pembroke and starring

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, Grant Withers, Warren Hymer, and

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Plot

A telephone operator covering for an absent friend is flooded with calls seeking emergency assistance as the Riverdale Dam bursts and the community falls victim to a major deluge.

Cast

as Helen Molly * Grant Withers as Red * Warren Hymer as Shorty *

as Dottie Stengal * Ronnie Cosby as Ted Molloy * Pat Flaherty as Tom Sommers * Greta Granstedt as Sylvia Sommers * William Haade as Heaver *

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as Pat Campbell * Dorothy Vaughan as Mrs. Molloy

External links

* * 1937 films 1937 drama films 1930s disaster films American black-and-white films American disaster films American drama films Films directed by Scott Pembroke Monogram Pictures films Films about telephony 1930s English-language films 1930s American films English-language drama films {{1930s-drama-film-stub