05 August 1916 Thriller 12 mins
Jud Hendricks, foreman of the construction camp, is being blackmailed by Gypsy Joe, who knows of a dark page in the Hendricks' past. Hendricks and Tom Rasom are rivals for the favor of Helen, with Tom in the lead. The latter, an engineer, is about to take his train out when he finds Gypsy Joe hiding in a boxcar.
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Helen Gibson as Helen Gibson
George A. Williams as The Sheriff
Scott Pembroke as Tom Ransom
O. Filippi as Gypsy Joe
George Routh as Jud Hendricks
United States 05 August 1916
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15 April 1916
Through an accomplice the band of conspirators preying on railroads succeed in having the boxcar loaded with auto tires sidetracked at Lone Point instead of being taken on to its rightful destination.
23 January 1915
Down and out, Bob, an engineer, drifts into town. His condition excites Helen's sympathy. Using her influence, the girl secures him a position with the railroad.
01 May 1915
Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brake apparatus.
13 July 1915
Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who attempts to interfere, is battered into insensibility.
22 May 1915
Helen spotting two jewel robbers sever the telegraph wires and hop onto a passing freight, jumps into a racing auto and takes off in pursuit.
17 April 1915
A crooked mine owner attempts to hijack his rival's shipment of ore, but Helen foils his plot by jumping onto the engine and pulling the throttle wide open, eventually exposing the unscrupulous villain.
06 May 1916
To prevent a three mile journey around the mountain the telegraph wires at the construction camp have been strung over the precipice from the station on the mountain top.
08 April 1916
The story is built around the rivalry of two railroads, and the record run that is to decide the awarding of large mail contracts.
25 March 1916
Hanging from a rope over the track, the detective seems certain to plunge to death when the oncoming train splits the knot of the rope which has been tied to a rail and slung over the bridge girder.
03 April 1915
King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lone Point.
20 March 1915
Lockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experiences during the Civil War, and how he lost his arm.
01 April 1916
Dick Benton is making a game attempt to start life all over again, after escaping from prison where he was confined for a crime he did not commit.
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23 January 1916
When Sassoon, also known as "The Wolf” attempts to swindle Dore Baxter out of her grandmother’s farm Garry Lindaberry and the villain’s wife conspire to thwart him leading to a happy conclusion for Dore & Garry.
24 April 1916
Myra Maynard's family is cursed by the devil-worshipping Black Order and she is marked for death by black magic on the eve of her eighteenth birthday.
22 January 1916
The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict.
01 January 1916
A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
29 July 1916
Black La Rue was born on the Mexican border in times of raids and fights. His father was killed in one of the fights.
27 February 1916
Scott Wells, a lowly clerk in the offices of railroad magnate David Haldeman, overhears a plot to ruin Haldeman.
08 May 1916
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they marry.
12 March 1916
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders.
10 July 1916
When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one. Glad Mason replies and sends her picture.
22 January 1916
"The Open Track" is a short action film from the action series of short films "The Hazards of Helen".
02 January 1916
Illustrated travel lecture directed by Robert J. Flaherty, composed of film shot during his time with the Inuit in 1914-1915.
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