Ablaze on the Rails

N/ANR12 mins

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.

Keywords

lost film

Top Cast

Helen Gibson

Helen

George A. Williams

Benton

Scott Pembroke

The Construction Superintendent

George Routh

The Foreman

Jack Messick

Detective Kent

Gladys Blue

Kent's Sweetheart

Part of the
The Hazards of Helen

The Hazards of Helen In Danger's Path The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine The Leap from the Water Tower The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight The Pay Train The Wrong Train Order The Death Train The Open Track The Capture of Red Stanley The Treasure Train The Mysterious Cipher The Detective's Peril The Trapping of 'Peeler' White The Record Run The Race for a Siding The Governor's Special The Human Telegram The Bridge of Danger Nerves of Steel A Railroader's Bravery The Stolen Engine Helen's Sacrifice The Plot at the Railroad Cut The Girl at the Throttle One Chance in a Hundred The Flying Freight's Captive The Black Diamond Express The Broken Circuit The Escape on the Limited The Girl Telegrapher's Peril The Box Car Trap A Race for a Crossing The Girl Engineer The Girl on the Trestle A Life in the Balance The Girl at Lone Point The Railroad Raiders of '62 The Open Drawbridge The Engineer's Peril The Red Signal The Little Engineer The Fast Mail's Danger The Fiend at the Throttle The Night Operator at Buxton A Wild Ride The Midnight Limited Near Eternity The Human Chain The Broken Train A Deed of Daring The Girl on the Engine The Fate of Number One The Substitute Fireman The Limited's Peril A Boy at the Throttle Crossed Wires The Tramp Telegrapher The Dynamite Train The Girl on the Bridge The Girl and the Special Danger Ahead! The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children A Mile a Minute A Test of Courage The Watertank Plot The Runaway Boxcar A Matter of Seconds A Girl's Grit The Broken Rail Train Order Number Forty-Five A Perilous Chance The Engineer's Honor The Spiked Switch The Trail of Danger The Girl Who Dared A Race for a Life The Girl Telegrapher's Nerve The Switchman's Story The Perilous Swing The Peril of the Rails The Broken Wire Tapped Wires The Haunted Station When Seconds Count At the Risk of Her Life A Plunge from the Sky In Death's Pathway The Broken Brake To Save the Road A Race Through the Air The Blocked Track The Death Swing Defying Death The Hoodoo of Division B Ablaze on the Rails The Secret of the Box Car At Danger's Call With the Aid of the Wrecker Hurled Through the Drawbridge A Mystery of the Rails The Midnight Express The Lineman's Peril The Trial Run The Forgotten Train Order The Runaway Sleeper The Lone Point Mystery The Gate of Death A Daring Chance To Save the Special The Lost Messenger The Wrecked Station The Fireman's Nemesis The Mogul Mountain Mystery A Race with Death The Vanishing Box Car The Sidetracked Sleeper The Prima Donna's Special The Railroad Claim Intrigue The Death Siding

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.

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