The Fire Brigade

{{short description|1926 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Fire Brigade

| image = File:The Fire Brigade.jpg

| caption =

| director = William Nigh

| story = Kate Corbaley

| writer = Robert N. Lee (adaptation)
Lotta Woods (titles)

| narrator =

| starring = May McAvoy
Charles Ray

| music =

| cinematography = John Arnold

| editing = Harry L. Decker

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{Film date|1926|12|20}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

| budget = $249,556{{cite book|last=Schatz|first=Thomas |title=The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era|year=1988|publisher=Pantheon Books|isbn=0-394-53979-6|page=41}}

}}

The Fire Brigade (also known as Fire!) is 1926 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh.{{cite book|last=Klepper|first=Robert K. |title=Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies|year=1999|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0-786-40595-3|page=452}} The film stars May McAvoy and Charles Ray.{{cite book|last=Butler|first=Ivan|title=Silent Magic: Rediscovering The Silent Film Era|year=1988|publisher=Ungar|isbn=0-804-42078-5|page=133}} The Fire Brigade originally contained sequences shot in two-color Technicolor. A print of the film is preserved in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists archives.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FireBrigade1926.html The Fire Brigade SilentEra database]

File:The Fire Brigade ad in Exhibitor's Herald The Independent Film Trade Paper (weekly, September 18, 1926 to December 11, 1926) - Internet Archive - exhibitorsherald27unse (page 1384 crop).jpg, 1926]]

The producers of the film contributed 25 per cent of the film's receipts toward a college for the instruction of fire-fighting officers.[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9503E6D61131EE32A25752C2A9649D946795D6CF Movie review], The New York Times