Helen, overhearing Tony and his accomplices plotting to derail the pay train and steal its money, is thrown into a cattle car; grabbing a revolver which one of the men has dropped, she shoots the wire controlling the semaphore arm, which then swings up and flashes the danger flag, thus averting disaster in the nick of time.
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Helen Holmes as Helen
George A. Williams as O'Malley - Section Foreman
Leo D. Maloney as Tony - a Mexican Section Hand
M.J. Murchison as Velasquez
Hoot Gibson as Orturo
J.P. McGowan Director
The Hazards of Helen (#31): The Pay Train Trailer
United States 11 June 1915
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from The Pay Train:
Silent Hall of Fame has created a Silent Gems Collection of rare and for the first time available films with our stars as well as other silent masterpieces.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1915:
02 June 1915
Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess. When an annoying party guest persuades Mabel to dance with him, Mabel hurries through the dance and then goes to look for her fiancé, only to discover him caressing another woman.
08 November 1915
A man neglects his wife to be with a dance hall singer. When the truth of his infidelity reaches his wife and the truth of his marital status reaches his lover, both women are heartbroken.
01 April 1915
A man trailing burglars is saved by a dog in this British short film.
09 July 1915
An innkeeper in sheer despair murders a passing by musician and steals his money in order to buy medicine for his dying wife.
19 April 1915
Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City.
14 December 1915
Lord John, a detective novelist and the Marquis of Haslemere's brother, receives word that the stage adaption of one of his stories will not be performed because Roger Odell, a millionaire, has spoken against him.
27 November 1915
The shifting of the dynamite contained in a boxcar causes the latter to be cut from the freight and set out as unsafe.
19 October 1915
The story of Silvio Pellico who was arrested on the charge of carbonarism and conveyed to the Santa Margherita prison, then moved to the Piombi at Venice The sentence of death pronounced on him in February 1822 was finally commuted to fifteen years of jail in harsh condition, and he was placed in the Spielberg, at Brünn (today's Brno).
10 April 1915
A dead child's broken doll reunites an estranged husband and wife.
14 October 1915
Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt).
15 December 1915
Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the credits; but since Ince was known far and wide as a glory-hogger, it's also possible that one of his talented lieutenants wielded the megaphone.
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