30 September 1916 Thriller 12 mins
Stallings' plot to spoil the demonstration of Dick Benton's newly invented safety stop for trains seems certain of success when the locomotive is sent running wild down the tracks. Helen saves the day by climbing out on a wire stretching across the tracks and dropping to the speeding engine.
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Helen Gibson as Helen
George A. Williams as Mr. Benton - Dick's Father
Scott Pembroke as Dick Benton
George Routh as Stallings
J. Gunnis Davis Director
United States 30 September 1916
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