The Broken Circuit(1915)

Name: The Broken Circuit
Director: J.P. McGowan
Released: 1915-01-16
Cast: Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney, George A. Williams, M.J. Murchison

01/16/1915 (US)Thriller0h 12m

Overview

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.

J.P. McGowan

Director

Frank Howard Clark

Story

Edward T. Matlack

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Helen Holmes

Helen

Leo D. Maloney

Thompson - Construction Foreman

George A. Williams

Wilkens - the Paymaster

M.J. Murchison

Nashman - the Baggagemaster

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Part of the The Hazards of Helen

Long running movie series adventure train films. This thrill-a-minute series was the longest running of the entire silent film era. It was produced between 1914 and 1917, and consisted of 119 almost weekly episodes. The series began with silent serial film queen Helen Holmes as the star - with an occasional actor taking over the lead. Eventually Helen Gibson took over the role of Helen. Unlike the cliffhanger serials of the era, The Hazards of Helen is actually a film series made up of near autonomous single reel twelve-minute melodramas. Most episodes of this series are presumed lost.