Helen Holmes
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Biography: Helen Holmes (June 19, 1892 – July 8, 1950) was an American silent film actress, producer, director, screenwriter and stuntwoman. She is most notable for starring in the 1914–1917 serial The Hazards of Helen. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: USA
Birthday: June 19, 1892
Deathday: July 08, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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40-Horse Hawkins
Overview: Luke Hawkins, the jack-of-all-trades of the western town of Lariat, falls in love with Mary Darling, the leading lady in a traveling theatrical troupe (of the old-fashioned "mortgage melodrama" variety). He follows her to New York, takes another series of jobs, and finally works as an extra in Mary's new production. Just as the play is about to flop, Luke recognizes Mary, and his rush to take her in his arms turns the show into a hit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-21
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Stormy Seas
Overview: Two men in love with the same girl race to save her when she is trapped aboard a ship on fire in storm-swept seas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Perils of the Rail
Overview: A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's trains.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-22
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Whispering Smith
Overview: Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen, retire to his ranch and forays against the railroad. "Whispering Smith," engaged by the railroad to restore order, is hesitant in dealing with Sinclair when he falls in love with Marion, Sinclair's wife, who is separated from her husband and operates a small shop in Medicine Bend. Dicksie, McCloud's sweetheart, overhears Sinclair threaten McCloud, and she rides through a storm to warn him; Smith, with the aid of Bill Dancing, tracks down Sinclair and his men, and Bill kills the villain. Dicksie and McCloud marry and take Marion under their protection.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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Whispering Smith
Overview: Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is nothing of the bully or braggart about him. He is only a man who knows instinctively what is right and never falters in his steps to see that justice is given where it is deserved and crime punished on the same basis. Originally shot as a serial to be called "Whispering Smith", distributor Mutual Films decided to release it as two separate films - this film, which was released first, and Medicine Bend (1916).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-05
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Stars of Yesterday
Overview: Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Operator at Black Rock
Overview: The holdup of the Fast Mail; the runaway train, and the leap on horseback from a fifty-foot cliff are just some of the action
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-05
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The Fast Freight
Overview: Eighth of a series of 8 features produced by Morris R. Schlank starring Helen Holmes and directed by J.P. McGowan for Anchor distribution.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-01
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Into the Depths
Overview: Neglected by her husband, Beth Stanford becomes interested in Arthur, his friend. Although their friendship is an innocent one. Stanford becomes intensely jealous. Arthur presents Beth with a diamond brooch upon her birthday. Later, when Stanford faces ruin, he compels Beth to pawn her jewels. The money thus secured proves insufficient for his needs. The man drinks heavily in his desperation and falls into a drunken stupor. When Stanford returns home, he meets Arthur. The husband cedes Beth to Arthur for a sum sufficient to settle his obligations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-15
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The Stolen Engine
Overview: A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engineer to aid their escape. Learning this, Helen climbs into the cab of a locomotive standing on a siding and takes up the chase.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-05
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The Death Train
Overview: The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is treachery afoot at Lone Point. Detectives capture two of the trio, but one of them gets away, pursued by Helen, across a high railroad trestle. Seventh of the "Hazards of Helen" Railroad Series.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-06
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The Flying Freight's Captive
Overview: Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a box car, but gets loose, and leaps to the ground from the speeding train. The crooks are captured, Helen's pluck wins Billy's heart, but, as usual, she refuses, with an eye on next week's adventure.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-12
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The Black Diamond Express
Overview: When Dick, an aeronaut is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Helen aids his escape on the outgoing Black Diamond Express.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-19
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The Escape on the Limited
Overview: Brandt, a defaulting cashier, hiding in Lone Point in his effort to throw detectives off his track, cuts the wires of Helen's telephone to prevent her from calling for help, binds and gags her, and boards the outgoing Limited. Freed by Detective Sheridan, the two of them get into a gasoline speeder standing on the sidetrack and pursue the Limited.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-26
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The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
Overview: Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejects his advances. Helen spies Myra, Blake's three year old daughter, who has ventured onto the tracks of the oncoming Elwood Express, and just in the nick of time, grasps the girl off the tracks, but in so doing, must leap off a trestle into a river thirty feet below
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Broken Circuit
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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-16
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Battling Brewster
Overview: An action movie serial that premiered in 1924
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-01
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The Fast Mail's Danger
Overview: 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. Rankin, Dalmore and Dougherty escape from prison. The men attempt to enter the Hobart Tower, but Helen, seizing a revolver, baffles them.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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The Little Engineer
Overview: While Hastings, the engineer of Freight No. 3205 is at lunch- in the Lone Point station, Bobby Heywood, the son of an engineer, climbs into the cab of the engine. Having frequently observed his father start his locomotive, Bobby jerks the throttle open. Helen sees the freight speeding down the track. Remembering that Bobby has been playing about the station, the girl surmises what has occurred.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-30
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The Red Signal
Overview: Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insane. Meantime, a furious storm arises, a track walker discovers a washout and wires a warning to Helen, who sets the danger signal for the Limited which is due in ten minutes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-13
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The Engineer's Peril
Overview: Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a notorious swindler, is headed for Montville. Anna later brings about Hudson's arrest when the man, posing as a minister, attempts to swindle the people of the town.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-20
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The Open Drawbridge
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-27
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The Railroad Raiders of '62
Overview: 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. The Civil War flashback sequences consist of archive footage from Kalem's Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911), rather than newly filmed footage.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-20
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The Girl at Lone Point
Overview: Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train because of a hot box and are attempting to rifle the safe. The yeggmen escape aboard a passing freight with Helen, who has leaped upon the caboose, in hot pursuit, along with the trainmen.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-27
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Helen's Sacrifice
Overview: In the first entry in the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, the night telegraph operator at Lone Point, relieves Benton, the day operator, several hours ahead of time, because he is caring for his sick child. Receiving an order to sidetrack a freight until the fast mail passes, Helen mounts a horse, takes a short cut, leaps from a fifty foot cliff into a river
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-14
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The Plot at the Railroad Cut
Overview: In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs up between two men who are seeking Helen's favor, but to whom she has remained impartial.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-21
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His Nemesis
Overview: With ruin staring him in the face, Manning, of Manning and Company, commits a theft which averts the crash. The scoundrel cleverly contrives to throw suspicion upon Reynolds, an old and faithful employee. Reynolds receives a three-year sentence. Beatrice, the daughter of Manning's victim, believes in her father's innocence. Led to believe Manning the real cause of her father's tribulations, Beatrice vows to wreak vengeance upon the scoundrel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-18
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A Life in the Balance
Overview: King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lone Point. Suddenly, the brake chain snaps and the train commences to roll down hill. Helen sees King's peril, rides to a point just before a curve, crawls hand over hand across a rope which she has stretched across the track, and snatches King from the car moments before the car is dashed to pieces as it leaves the rails of the curve.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-03
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The Girl on the Trestle
Overview: A wagon load of powder explodes, destroying the railroad trestle under which it is passing; Helen, knowing that a passenger train is due within a few minutes, climbs aboard a freight car which coasts down a steep grade near the trestle. As it nears the structure, she applies the brakes, leaps to the ground, crawls across the burning trestle
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-10
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The Girl Engineer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-17
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A Race for a Crossing
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-24
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The Box Car Trap
Overview: Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brake apparatus. As a result, the box car runs wild, trapping him inside. Before Helen can sidetrack the runaway, it shoots off the track at Elbow curve, overturning as it topples down the embankment. Helen smashes a hole through the side, braves the flames, crawls into the car, rescues Jim and drags him to safety. But her heroism is too late; Jim dies in her arms.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-01
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The Broken Train
Overview: 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. In the meantime, the freight's brakes fail, and the train breaks in two. Helen, on a road parallel to the tracks, leaps onto a flat car, runs forward, informs the train crew what has happened, and captures the crooks.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-22
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The Human Chain
Overview: Deering and his gang rifle the station safe and gain possession of some valuable gems; Helen seizes the package and throws it into the river. In order to recover the package, a human chain is formed by the railroad men, which Helen climbs down and attempts to catch the package with her feet. Meanwhile, Deering and his men have boarded a launch, and succeed in grabbing both Helen and the package. Morton takes over a freight train, captures the crooks, and rescues Helen and the gems.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-05
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The Girl at the Throttle
Overview: Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train will collide with the Eastbound Express. Helen jumps onto a nearby standing locomotive, opens it up full throttle, catches up the Express, warns the engineer of the impending danger
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-28
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Nerves of Steel
Overview: Detective Strong is warned that an attempt will be made to free the crooks he is taking to the penitentiary. In spite of his vigilance, the prisoners escape when confederates start a gunfight on the train. Strong and his men scour the countryside for the fugitives.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-11
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A Railroader's Bravery
Overview: When Helen learns that wiretappers have make a prisoner of Henry, the relief operator, she severs the wire being tapped, boards a freight train, uncouples the engine, and pursues the tappers, who are in a gasoline speeder. She eventually rescues Henry and captures Noyes, the head of the gang, who is then placed under arrest.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-29
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Near Eternity
Overview: A quarryman, dismissed because of intoxication, blames Billy, the mail clerk, and seeks revenge. He steals several sticks of dynamite, climbs to the top of the mail crane and ties to the explosives to the mail bag. Helen sees what is taking place, climbs to the arm and unties the dynamite. With the passenger train a short distance away, she hurls the explosive away just as the train approaches.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-19
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The Midnight Limited
Overview: Under the influence of liquor, Griffin foolishly displays a roll of bills. Wheeler and Walter, yeggmen, see the money and trail the traveler to the station. The men learn the berth he is to occupy. Hastening to a bridge under which the train must pass, they drop to the roof of one of the cars when it appears. Helen, transferred to Burnett, is a passenger on the train. By mistake, Griffin gets into her berth. Because of the man's condition, Helen consents to allow him to keep her berth. The girl takes the one which Griffin's ticket calls for. An hour later, Helen is awakened by a peculiar noise outside the car. Hastily dressing, she sees the window being raised. Wheeler's face appears at the window. The man foils Helen's attempt to shoot him, disarms her and then climbs back to the roof of the car.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-03
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A Wild Ride
Overview: The bad blood existing between Reardon and Haley results in a fight in which Reardon is worsted. Reardon, vowing vengeance, climbs back aboard his engine while Haley resumes his station. The fight is witnessed by a number of railroad men. In climbing back to the water tank, Haley stumbles and falls between the cars.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-10
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A Deed of Daring
Overview: Upon learning that a gang of smugglers are using freight cars to bring Chinamen across the border, the railroad officials order all employees to keep a strict watch for traffic of this nature.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-17
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The Girl on the Engine
Overview: When informed by Helen that the rival railroad proposes to cross the Salt Lake's tracks, McKay, Division Superintendent, rushes a guard of men to Lone Point. This temporarily blocks the rival road's plan, but only until its force of men has been strengthened.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-24
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The Fate of Number One
Overview: Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who attempts to interfere, is battered into insensibility. The criminals then place a note in the man's pocket warning the railroad officials to heed their demands in the future.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-13
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The Substitute Fireman
Overview: A warm friendship springs up between Quirkly and Helen, when the fireman saves the girl's life. In his desire to be near Helen, Quirkly obtains a room in the house where the girl telegrapher boards. Badger, a crook, stopping in the same house, learns that Quirkly is in the habit of carrying his savings in a bag suspended from his neck. Entering the room with a confederate, Badger chloroforms the fireman and steals the money. Helen hears the noise of the struggle, but comes too late to apprehend the crooks.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-07
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The Limited's Peril
Overview: Wharton, trailing Red Leary and his gang, learns that the men intend to wreck the Limited. Curley, a fireman, is implicated. The crooks become aware of Wharton's presence and attack him. Helen comes to the detective's rescue with a revolver and captures one of the men.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-14
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A Perilous Chance
Overview: Bull, Reno and Red make a getaway after holding up the Limited. Helen later sees the men and summons the detectives. The convicts escape from the trap and board a passing freight. Helen also succeeds in getting aboard. The train crew discovers the fugitives. Reno, in charge of the valise containing the loot, throws it into the boxcar ahead.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-21
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Train Order Number Forty-Five
Overview: Borden, who nurses a secret grievance against Helen, awaits an opportunity for revenge. The girl telegrapher receives a message which informs her that the freight of which Easton is conductor, is to wait at Workman until the Fast Mail passes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-28
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The Broken Rail
Overview: Spang, a tramp telegrapher, is knocked down by a freight car while walking up the siding near Lone Point. Helen witnesses the accident and by quick work saves him from being run over. The girl is later transferred to the shop's office and, due to her influence.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-04
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A Girl's Grit
Overview: After robbing the bank at Orlock, Cherry and Newton make their getaway. When on the outskirts of Lone Point, the men cut the telephone wires. Helen, however, learns of the robbery. Never suspecting that the crooks are headed for the station, the girl is taken by surprise when Newton and his pal hold her up.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-18
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A Matter of Seconds
Overview: Dawson, a newcomer to the division, meets Helen while the girl is riding in the freight engine with Star, his engineer. Helen ignores the fireman's offensive stares, knowing that trouble would instantly result, if she reported the matter to Star. The following day, Dawson approaches the girl telegrapher and, seizing her in his arms, kisses her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-25
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The Runaway Boxcar
Overview: Disguised as car repairmen, Mealius and Denney get aboard the express car, overpower the express messenger and steal a valuable package being forwarded to Arlington. Helen sees the crooks jumping from the car when it stops for water at Lone Point and gives the alarm.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-02
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The Watertank Plot
Overview: Fearing lest Cameron's horse beat the pony he has plunged on, Tony Dorgan orders one of his men to bribe the stableman to drug the animal. Saratoga Johnny tries to carry out Tony's order, but receives a beating at the hands of the irate Cameron employee.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-09
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A Test of Courage
Overview: Confronting Helen at the Lone Point Switch Tower, Denning and his pal imprison the girl in a clothes closet and then steal everything of value. In making their getaway, the crooks accidentally upset a lantern and set the tower afire. Helen, by picking the lock in the door with a hairpin, barely escapes death in the flames.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-16
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The Mettle of Jerry McGuire
Overview: Helen is operator at Bells. Jerry McGuire, engineer on the local freight, and Tom Thornton, his fireman, are both rivals for the hand of the girl. Jerry is preferred and Tom tries to get Jerry to take to liquor again, a habit that he has overcome. Tom is unsuccessful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-06
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A Desperate Leap
Overview: As the freight train on which are riding Mike and Leary, two knights of the road, passes the station at Hynes, the tramps steal the mail bag which had been placed on the crane by the postmaster of that place. They jump from the train in a secluded spot and start to rifle the bag.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-27
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When Rogues Fall Out
Overview: Holmes, the president of the S.L. Railway, has been trying very hard to secure a new franchise for his company. Frank Hynes, an acquaintance of Helen, the daughter of Holmes, has been a friendly visitor at the house, but, unknown to Helen and her father, is trying in every way possible to prevent Holmes from obtaining the franchise.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-25
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Medicine Bend
Overview: Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-03
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Judith of the Cumberlands
Overview: Two rival mountain clans that have been feuding for years begin a new battle over the moonshine whiskey trade. A young man and a girl from each of the different clans try to end the feud, and wind up falling for each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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The Diamond Runners
Overview: Helen, a "diamond runner," reaches South Africa.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-28
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The Lone Hand
Overview: Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, but before he can relax, he meets Jane Sheridan and her father, Al Sheridan, who are fighting off a group of swindlers who want the old man's mining property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-16
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The Flaw in the Alibi
Overview: It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the assistant cashier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-29
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Fighting Fury
Overview: A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three ranchers who murdered his parents.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-06
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The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine
Overview: Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and speeds down the track to warn the passengers of their imminent peril. Nearing a river trestle under repair, she hurtles into the river; undaunted, she swims to the opposite bank and flags down the excursion train in the nick of time, causing the engineer to run his train onto a siding just a few moments before the runaway dashes by.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-07
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Kaintucky Bill
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-07
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The Hazards of Helen Ep33: In Danger's Path
Overview: Helen is captured by two yeggmen who throw her into a refrigerator car; finding a meat hook, she chops her way into the ice chamber and reaches the top of the train in time to avert a collision of two trains.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-26
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The Girl and the Game
Overview: Irrepressible Helen Rhinelander, the daughter of a railroad president. A dastardly villain, Segrue, however, desires not only Helen but also the plans for a new railroad. Happily, Helen's childhood sweetheart, Paul Storm, now an engineer, is right there to protect the damsel-in-distress through the serial's 15 exciting chapters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Fatal Fortune
Overview: A young newspaperwoman travels to a South Seas island to search for buried treasure.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-15
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Hills of Missing Men
Overview: A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and bring down the madman Crando and his group of crazed followers, who are setting up their own criminal empire spreading from Mexico into the United States.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-26
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A Lass of the Lumberlands
Overview: 15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-02
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The Lost Express
Overview: A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators and the authorities try to determine where it is and who took it.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
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Crossed Signals
Overview: A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-28
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On His Wedding Day
Overview: When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-31
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The Pay Train
Overview: Helen, overhearing Tony and his accomplices plotting to derail the pay train and steal its money, is thrown into a cattle car; grabbing a revolver which one of the men has dropped, she shoots the wire controlling the semaphore arm, which then swings up and flashes the danger flag, thus averting disaster in the nick of time.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-11
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The Leap from the Water Tower
Overview: Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day. Learning of the impending peril, Helen dashes to a water tower under which the train must pass, climbs out on the spout, leaps onto the roof of one of the cars, and warns the engineer in time. Helen's heroism wins her another offer of marriage, this time from Wadsworth, the freight engineer, but once again she opts for next weeks hazards instead.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-09
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The Car of Death
Overview: In this film Helen Holmes was clearly rehearsing for the role that brought to her fame and recognition in a serial that started getting released two months later. She became the audacious star of "The Hazards of Helen", acting as the heroine of numerous railroad adventures.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-28
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The Californian
Overview: Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-18
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Mistaken Orders
Overview: Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchmen, scheming against the railroad, and, as a result, a fight takes place and a switching order is overlooked which nearly results in a major wreck. Realizing the situation at Hynes, Helen Barton, Vincent's sister, dashes to Hynes in her roadster and puts together a severed telegraph wire to put the station back in communications with headquarters. Meanwhile, Helen's sweetheart, Tom Lawson, is fighting with Sharkey in a run-away engine and it is headed for an open bridge over a river.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-29
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Dude Cowboy
Overview: A Nevada rancher goes undercover for the U. S. Secret Service to help capture a gang of counterfeiters. Director David Howard's 1941 B-western stars Tim Holt, Marjorie Reynolds, Lee White, Eddie Kane, Ray Whitley, Helen Holmes, Glenn Strange, Byron Foulger, Eddie Dew, Tom London and Hank Worden.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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The Lost Express
Overview: Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-28
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Outwitted
Overview: After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfeiting rap, Tiger McGuire is sprung from jail by his old gang. Vowing to get even with Jack, Tiger kidnaps the young man's fiancée, Helen (Holmes), bringing the girl to his hideout, a fancy yacht owned by Lucy Carlisle.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Barriers of the Law
Overview: When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's leader locks her up in a brothel. She escapes and hides in the apartment of a man who turns out to be the chief of the government agents pursuing her gang. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-26
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The Manager of the B & A
Overview: Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers' wrath. With the help of Griffith Ryder, labor leader and newspaper editor, they call a strike. The water main which supplies the railroad yards is cut, and a hot engine starts a fire. With water unavailable, the fire spreads to town, but through his superhuman efforts, Oakley gets it under control. His heroic moves win favor with the workers, and the strike is history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-25
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The Railroad Raiders
Overview: A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A Woman's Wit; 6. The Overland Disaster; 7. Mistaken Identity; 8. A Knotted Cord; 9. A Leap for Life; 10. A Watery Grave; 11. A Desperate Deed; 12. A Fight for a Franchise; 13. The Road Wrecker; 14. The Trap; 15. The Mystery of the Counterfeit Tickets.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Hazards of Helen
Overview: The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917. Most episodes of this serial are presumed lost.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-24
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The Lost Mail Sack
Overview: A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the crane at Bell Station. Two hobos find the sack and rifle the contents. Morrison, postmaster at Bell, has been systematically robbing the mails and benefits by the mail sack's disappearance. Mary Gates, daughter of an engineer, supplies the Post Office inspectors with the first clue. The detectives blunder, however, and arrest Billy, Mary's sweetheart. Chance leads them on the trail of the tramps. The hobos are arrested after a desperate battle. Later, as the result of Mary's clever work, Morrison is brought to bay, while Billy wins his freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-07
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Webs of Steel
Overview: A railroad engineer and his wife try to stop a gang of robbers from holding up their train.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-01
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The More the Merrier
Overview: It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-13
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode 3 - The Girl at the Throttle
Overview: Blake, fireman of a light engine, receives a message that his wife is dangerously ill. Benton, his engineer, allows Blake to catch an eastbound passenger train. A hunter shooting as the light engine is passing, wounds Benton who drops unconscious. The sportsman reports the accident. Helen, a telegrapher, receives word of the runaway train. Climbing into the cab of a locomotive in a siding, Helen jerks the throttle wide open. The engine rushes after the endangered express. Discovering his train is being pursued, the conductor of the Eastbound Express gives the signal to stop. Helen slows her engine down and tells of the danger. While the Eastbound locomotive goes to meet the runaway, Helen's engine draws the cars to safety. The runaway is halted in the nick of time. Helen's superb heroism results in her being showered with offers of marriage. But she enjoys her hazardous adventure too much to marry anyone yet. —Moving Picture World synopsis
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Original Language: en
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