Ablaze on the Rails(1916)

Name: Ablaze on the Rails
Director: J. Gunnis Davis
Released: 1916-09-09
Cast: Helen Gibson, George A. Williams, Scott Pembroke, George Routh, Jack Messick

09/09/1916 (US)Thriller0h 12m

Overview

Helen, by a courageous leap from a motorcycle, reaches the burning boxcar in which the detectives are imprisoned and succeeds in applying the brakes in time to bring it to a stop and save them from almost certain death.

J. Gunnis Davis

Director

Edward T. Matlack

Story

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Helen Gibson

Helen

George A. Williams

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Scott Pembroke

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George Routh

The Foreman

Jack Messick

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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.