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 Man from Tia Juana

The Man from Tia Juana 1917

1

Jack Hoxie and Marin Sais star in this 'American Girl' short. A courageous young woman must clear her boyfriend after he is framed for a hold-up.

1917

Ben Hur

Ben Hur 1907

4.46

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

1907

The Secret Room

The Secret Room 1915

1

A scientist tries to transfer the personality of a man into his mentally retarded son.

1915

The Girl from Frisco

The Girl from Frisco 1916

1

A series of 25 2-reel Western thrillers in which a cowgirl aids the cause of justice and humanity in the Old West, often aided by her fiancé and her rancher father. Each episode tells a complete story in itself.

1916

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 Cave Men's War

The Cave Men's War 1913

1

The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People.

1913

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 Broken Circuit

The Broken Circuit 1915

1

Attempting to prevent an armed robbery in the paymaster's office, Helen is bound and gagged, and the thieves escape on a hand car. With her feet still bound by wire, Helen endeavors to pursue on foot, but stumbles and falls across the rails of the track of an oncoming train.

1915

The Confederate Ironclad

The Confederate Ironclad 1912

5.30

During the Civil War, Elinor, a pretty Northern girl, comes south to visit her aunt-- Little does anyone suspect she works as a spy. Lieutenant Yancey, who's nearly engaged to the fetching and resourceful Rose, is gallant enough to show the Yankee guest around, including a walk down a hidden creek where a gunboat is built and awaits powder. Elinor sends this intelligence North, and the Bluecoats attack.

1912

The Open Drawbridge

The Open Drawbridge 1915

1

Benton, railroad detective, is assigned to run down the crooks who have been breaking into freight cars near Hobart. Helen, the telegraph operator at Hobart, supplies Benton with his first clue. Later in the day, the two see Rand and his band of river pirates rifling a box car.

1915

The Colleen Bawn

The Colleen Bawn 1911

6.50

A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.

1911

Kaintucky Bill

Kaintucky Bill 1914

1

The old sheriff dies. In jest, the mountaineers nominate Kaintucky Bill, the worst moonshiner in the state, for the office. Considering it a huge joke, Kaintucky Bill takes the oath of office.

1914

An Arabian Tragedy

An Arabian Tragedy 1912

1

Ayub Kashif becomes embittered toward his wife, Fatima, because their union has been childless. He eventually determines to divorce Fatima and free her slave, whom he then will wed. Fatima, who still loves her husband, lives a life of sorrow, praying that her husband's love will return to her.

1912

The Mexican Joan of Arc

The Mexican Joan of Arc 1911

1

Senor Talamantes and his sons, suspected of being insurgents, are arrested and, without trial, are sentenced to death by Colonel Cephis. The widow Talamantes vows to avenge the unjust death of her husband and her children by organizing a company of Indians and Mexicans with whom she joins the insurgents.

1911

The Menace of Fate

The Menace of Fate 1914

1

Ethel, the young daughter of the wealthy Wiltons, is stolen by Effie Sprout, a woman of the slums. Fifteen years later the girl has succumbed to her environment.

1914

The Bridge of Danger

The Bridge of Danger 1916

1

The new superintendent's first order on taking the post eliminates the men whom he terms old, which costs "Pop" Bates his job as Helen's relief operator. His next declaration is that active railroad work is no place for women, and Helen is also dropped from the service. While Helen is breaking the news to Bob Bates, the new superintendent is hustling about the road yard speeding up the work. "Put more snap into your switching," he tells the men. A minute later, while he is making an inspection inside a boxcar with defective air brakes, a switching engine rams the car. The force of the impact, heightened by the recent orders, throws the superintendent to the floor stunned, and starts the car on the down grade. In the few moments it is speeding along the road and there is consternation among the men for a washout down the road means that it is headed to certain destruction.

1916

A Race for a Crossing

A Race for a Crossing 1915

1

Sharky, a rival road agent, plots to spoil a trial run to be made on Helen's road that will win a mail contract. He opens a waste valve on the tank of the engine, and, when nearing Lone Point, the water tank runs dry. Helen comes to the rescue by mounting the new gasoline speeder and starting off with the mail for the end of the run.

1915

Seed and the Harvest

Seed and the Harvest 1914

1

His weak-willed mother and the son Fred, whom she has spoiled, are the mill-stones around Dan's neck. Ida, who loves him, determines to save him from their influence. The girl is assistant district attorney. Fred is arrested as a cocaine vendor.

1914