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
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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:
19 April 1915
Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City.
13 September 1915
Richard Duvall is a young American detective in the employ of the French Secret Police. While in Paris he meets Grace Ellicot, also an American, with whom he falls in love.
20 October 1915
Bill Pike, recently married, hits his home town about seven in the evening, and immediately is seized by a bunch of his old cronies who drag him into a hotel to have a game of poker.
04 July 1915
Emphasizing themes of female independence and the esteem due to the men serving in the armed forces, the plot involves a strong-willed young woman (Agnes Vernon) who defies her father in order to marry a soldier (Hobart Henly) instead of the well-to-do suitor preferred by her father.
01 April 1915
A man trailing burglars is saved by a dog in this British short film.
24 June 1915
Nicknamed "Wild Olive," Miriam Strange discovers that her mom was an Indian, she moves to a hovel close to an Allegheny stumble camp.
17 November 1915
A blind woman is cured by a doctor, but when her sight is restored she accidently mistakes her kind lover for his wayward younger brother and no one deems to correct her ‘fearing for her psyche’.
10 April 1915
A dead child's broken doll reunites an estranged husband and wife.
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.
01 October 1915
Bruce Marsden, a former millionaire fallen on bad times, marries Helen Stanhope against her mother's wishes.
02 June 1915
Rev. Horace Brightray, pastor of a New England village church, is ordered by his physician to seek another climate.
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