Helen Holmes
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]
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8121 |
| Birthday | 1892-06-19 |
| Place of Birth | USA |
| Also Known As |
1924
40-Horse Hawkins
7/1
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...
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40-Horse Hawkins
1923
Stormy Seas
8/1
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.
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Stormy Seas
1926
Perils of the Rail
7.5/2
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.
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Perils of the Rail
1916
Whispering Smith
0/0
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 n...
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Whispering Smith
1926
Whispering Smith
9/1
Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen, ret...
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Whispering Smith
1931
Stars of Yesterday
9/1
Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
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Stars of Yesterday
1914
The Operator at Black Rock
0/0
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
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The Operator at Black Rock
1925
The Fast Freight
4.5/2
Eighth of a series of 8 features produced by Morris R. Schlank starring Helen Holmes and directed by J.P. McGowan for Anchor distribution.
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The Fast Freight
1914
Into the Depths
0/0
Neglected by her husband, Beth Stanford becomes interested in Arthur, his friend. Although their friendship is an innocent one. Stanford becomes inten...
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Into the Depths
1914
The Stolen Engine
0/0
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 cli...
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The Stolen Engine
1915
The Death Train
0/0
The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is treachery afoot at Lone Point. Detectives capture...
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The Death Train
1914
The Flying Freight's Captive
0/0
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 bo...
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The Flying Freight's Captive
1914
The Black Diamond Express
0/0
When Dick, an aeronaut is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Helen aids his escape on the outgoing Black Diamond E...
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The Black Diamond Express
1915
The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
0/0
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 y...
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The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
1915
The Broken Circuit
0/0
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...
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The Broken Circuit
1924
Battling Brewster
9/1
An action movie serial that premiered in 1924
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Battling Brewster
1914
The Escape on the Limited
0/0
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...
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The Escape on the Limited
1915
The Little Engineer
0/0
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...
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The Little Engineer
1915
The Fast Mail's Danger
0/0
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 th...
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The Fast Mail's Danger
1915
The Railroad Raiders of '62
0/0
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....
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The Railroad Raiders of '62
1915
The Engineer's Peril
0/0
Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a notorious swindler, is headed for Montville. Anna...
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The Engineer's Peril
1915
The Open Drawbridge
0/0
Benton, railroad detective, is assigned to run down the crooks who have been breaking into freight cars near Hobart. Helen, the telegraph operator at...
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The Open Drawbridge
1915
The Girl at Lone Point
0/0
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...
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The Girl at Lone Point
1915
The Red Signal
0/0
Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insan...
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The Red Signal
1915
A Race for a Crossing
0/0
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...
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A Race for a Crossing
1915
The Human Chain
0/0
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...
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The Human Chain
1914
His Nemesis
10/1
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...
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His Nemesis
1914
Helen's Sacrifice
0/0
In the first entry in the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, the night telegraph operator at Lone Point, relieves Benton, the day operator, sever...
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Helen's Sacrifice
1915
The Girl Engineer
0/0
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...
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The Girl Engineer
1915
The Box Car Trap
0/0
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, t...
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The Box Car Trap
1915
A Life in the Balance
0/0
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 t...
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A Life in the Balance
1915
The Broken Train
0/0
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 m...
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The Broken Train
1914
The Plot at the Railroad Cut
0/0
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...
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The Plot at the Railroad Cut
1914
The Girl at the Throttle
0/0
Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train wil...
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The Girl at the Throttle
1915
Nerves of Steel
0/0
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...
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Nerves of Steel
1915
A Railroader's Bravery
0/0
When Helen learns that wiretappers have make a prisoner of Henry, the relief operator, she severs the wire being tapped, boards a freight train, uncou...
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A Railroader's Bravery
1915
The Girl on the Trestle
0/0
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...
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The Girl on the Trestle
1915
A Wild Ride
0/0
The bad blood existing between Reardon and Haley results in a fight in which Reardon is worsted. Reardon, vowing vengeance, climbs back aboard his eng...
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A Wild Ride
1915
Near Eternity
0/0
A quarryman, dismissed because of intoxication, blames Billy, the mail clerk, and seeks revenge. He steals several sticks of dynamite, climbs to the t...
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Near Eternity
1915
The Midnight Limited
0/0
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 st...
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The Midnight Limited
1915
A Deed of Daring
0/0
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...
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A Deed of Daring
1915
The Limited's Peril
0/0
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 o...
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The Limited's Peril
1915
The Substitute Fireman
0/0
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...
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The Substitute Fireman
1915
A Perilous Chance
0/0
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...
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A Perilous Chance
1915
The Girl on the Engine
0/0
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...
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The Girl on the Engine
1915
The Fate of Number One
0/0
Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who attempts to interfere, is battered into insensibilit...
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The Fate of Number One
1915
A Girl's Grit
0/0
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, h...
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A Girl's Grit
1915
Train Order Number Forty-Five
0/0
Borden, who nurses a secret grievance against Helen, awaits an opportunity for revenge. The girl telegrapher receives a message which informs her that...
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Train Order Number Forty-Five
1915
A Matter of Seconds
0/0
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 of...
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A Matter of Seconds
1915
The Broken Rail
0/0
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 wo...
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The Broken Rail
1915
The Runaway Boxcar
0/0
Disguised as car repairmen, Mealius and Denney get aboard the express car, overpower the express messenger and steal a valuable package being forwarde...
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The Runaway Boxcar
1915
A Test of Courage
0/0
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 mak...
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A Test of Courage
1915
The Watertank Plot
0/0
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 Jo...
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The Watertank Plot
1915
When Rogues Fall Out
7/1
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,...
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When Rogues Fall Out
1915
The Mettle of Jerry McGuire
7/1
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. Jer...
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The Mettle of Jerry McGuire
1916
Judith of the Cumberlands
0/0
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...
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Judith of the Cumberlands
1916
Medicine Bend
0/0
Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.
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Medicine Bend
1915
A Desperate Leap
10/1
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...
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A Desperate Leap
1916
The Diamond Runners
10/1
Helen, a "diamond runner," reaches South Africa.
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The Diamond Runners
1922
The Lone Hand
7/1
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...
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The Lone Hand
1914
The Flaw in the Alibi
8/1
It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the assistant cashier.
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The Flaw in the Alibi
1924
Fighting Fury
10/1
A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three ranchers who murdered his parents.
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Fighting Fury
1915
The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine
6/2
Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and speed...
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The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine
1915
The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
5.8/4
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...
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
1914
Kaintucky Bill
8/1
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...
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Kaintucky Bill
1915
In Danger's Path
5/4
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 to...
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In Danger's Path
1915
The Girl and the Game
0/0
Irrepressible Helen Rhinelander, the daughter of a railroad president. A dastardly villain, Segrue, however, desires not only Helen but also the plans...
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The Girl and the Game
1919
The Fatal Fortune
9/1
A young newspaperwoman travels to a South Seas island to search for buried treasure.
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The Fatal Fortune
1922
Hills of Missing Men
10/1
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 craze...
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Hills of Missing Men
1916
A Lass of the Lumberlands
0/0
15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.
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A Lass of the Lumberlands
1917
The Lost Express
0/0
A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators a...
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The Lost Express
1926
Crossed Signals
6.5/2
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 counterf...
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Crossed Signals
1913
On His Wedding Day
8/1
When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.
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On His Wedding Day
1915
The Pay Train
5.3/3
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 whi...
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The Pay Train
1915
The Leap from the Water Tower
0/0
Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit...
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The Leap from the Water Tower
1914
The Car of Death
0/0
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 m...
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The Car of Death
1937
The Californian
7/2
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a s...
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The Californian
1925
Mistaken Orders
10/1
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,...
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Mistaken Orders
1941
Dude Cowboy
6/3
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 T...
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Dude Cowboy
1926
The Lost Express
9/1
Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.
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The Lost Express
1925
Outwitted
8/1
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...
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Outwitted
1925
Barriers of the Law
9/1
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 lea...
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Barriers of the Law
1916
The Manager of the B & A
0/0
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 G...
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The Manager of the B & A
1917
The Railroad Raiders
0/0
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 Wom...
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The Railroad Raiders
1917
The Hazards of Helen
0/0
The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24...
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The Hazards of Helen
1914
The Lost Mail Sack
7/1
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...
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The Lost Mail Sack
1925
Webs of Steel
9/1
Helen Webb (Helen Holmes) is willfully wooed by a man with a mysterious past (Bruce Gordon) who joins her father's line as a new engineer. Helen hops...
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Webs of Steel
1943
The More the Merrier
6.975/99
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believi...
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The More the Merrier
1914
The Hazards of Helen: Episode 3 - The Girl at the Throttle
0/0
Blake, fireman of a light engine, receives a message that his wife is dangerously ill. Benton, his engineer, allows Blake to catch an eastbound passen...
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode 3 - The Girl at the Throttle
1925
The Sign of the Cactus
7/1
A mysterious rider, known as Whitehorse Cactus, steals from the dishonest water company in order to help ranchers who have been cheated out of their w...
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The Sign of the Cactus
1924
The Riddle Rider
7/1
The Riddle Rider is a 1924 American silent Western film serial directed by William James Craft.
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The Riddle Rider
1920
The Tiger Band
7/1
1920 American silent serial.
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The Tiger Band
1925
Duped
8/1
New Yorker John Holmes, who has made a fortune on Wall Street, receives an urgent message to go West because a California gold mine in which he has in...
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