The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight

The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight 1915

5.80

Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees the two bandits aboard an outgoing freight and drops onto the roof of the car from above as it crosses underneath. A chase along the roofs of the speeding cars ensues.

1915

The Leap from the Water Tower

The Leap from the Water Tower 1915

1

Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day. Learning of the impending peril, Helen dashes to a water tower under which the train must pass, climbs out on the spout, leaps onto the roof of one of the cars, and warns the engineer in time. Helen's heroism wins her another offer of marriage, this time from Wadsworth, the freight engineer, but once again she opts for next weeks hazards instead.

1915

Ben Hur

Ben Hur 1907

4.50

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

1907

The Flaw in the Alibi

The Flaw in the Alibi 1914

1

It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the assistant cashier.

1914

The Phoney Cannibal

The Phoney Cannibal 1915

2.00

Ham fears he has accidentally killed his landlady so he and Bud go on the run, disguised as a missionary and a cannibal.

1915

The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War

The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War 1909

1

The American Civil War is the setting for this film which portrays the efforts of a girl, with the aid of her boyfriend, to deliver a message to the Confederate army while the Yankees try prevent them. After disguising themselves as Yankee soldiers, Nan and her young man are recognized, chased, and the young man killed. Nan manages to deliver the message but only after being shot herself, collapsing after the commander is in possession of the important news.

1909

The Chief of Police

The Chief of Police 1914

1

How a man, imprisoned for another's crime, finds justice at last.

1914

The Blocked Track

The Blocked Track 1916

1

On a visit to the State Prison with Superintendent Melvin of the construction camp near Lone Point. Helen gains the friendship of Butler, a former telegrapher who had been wrongfully convicted on circumstantial evidence. Butler is soon to be released and Helen promises to aid him.

1916

The Pursuit of the Smugglers

The Pursuit of the Smugglers 1913

5.00

A short smugglers’ drama in which a new employee of the harbour police starts working for an export trader, so as to keep an eye on the smugglers. After a wild chase, the smugglers are captured, and it turns out that harbour police agent and the daughter of the export trader get along very well.

1913

The Fiend at the Throttle

The Fiend at the Throttle 1915

1

Rita, a telegraph operator, informed that a freight train which is due to pass her station filled with high explosives is about to be overtaken by a passenger train on the same track with a madman at the controls, leaps onto a handcar, which she crashes into the passenger train and thus stops it; she jumps onto the cowcatcher, and into the cab of the engine, where, after a hard struggle with the fiend, she manages to overcome him and sidetrack the passenger train thus preventing disaster.

1915

The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg 1910

5.50

The opening scene of our story shows a Union powder wagon making its way down the road convoyed by a company of mounted Union soldiers. The route of this wagon is reported to Confederate headquarters by one of its spies. Nan, a girl frequently employed by the department of the Confederate army, is called to headquarters and instructed to secure the destruction of the enemy's ammunition train just reported. Nan is fitted out with a Union uniform, mounted on a fast horse and sent on her journey, previously provided with a forged order supposedly signed by a Union general which authorizes her to pass through the lines.

1910

Her Indian Mother

Her Indian Mother 1910

10.00

The scenes are laid in the Hudson Bay country in comparatively recent years and cover the life of a Hudson Bay factor, showing him as a young man assuming his business in the wilderness and, as was common in those days, taking an Indian wife that he had purchased of her father in Indian fashion.

1910

The Mystery of the Sleeping Death

The Mystery of the Sleeping Death 1914

5.00

A mystery film in which two people fall into a mysterious sleep coma; an Oriental hypnotist then tries to reawaken them.

1914

The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged

The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged 1910

1

Anastasia is being picked up by an artist who wants to paint her picture.The artist have other intentions as well. He tried to seduce Anastasia. When he is tired of her, Anastasia returns home to her mother.

1910

The Mayor from Ireland

The Mayor from Ireland 1912

1

Shamus, humiliated at a Country Dance by Bridget leaves Kerry to travel to New York, where he meets with success. Bridget and her husband Terry read of his success and emigrate to New York, but finds it harder than anticipated

1912

The Boomerang

The Boomerang 1913

1

Simon Watson, devoid of conscience, has become wealthy through the manufacture of "Watson's Remedy." One day he is stricken with terror when he finds a bottle of the medicine in the hands of his little child, Helen, and he warns her never to touch it. But the little one's curiosity is aroused and when her father has left for his office, she tastes the medicine and becomes violently ill. John Smith, a young workman, has a little daughter, Margaret, who is taken sick and the mother secures a bottle of the "remedy" at a drug store. Instead of relieving the child's pain, the medicine causes her to lose consciousness and when the horrified father learns the cause, he determines to seek Watson's life.

1913