George A. Williams

George A. Williams

Born: August 11, 1854
Died: February 21, 1936
in Kinnickinnic, Wisconsin, USA

Movies for George A. Williams...

Hurricane Hal
Title: Hurricane Hal
Character: Bill Adams
Released: November 13, 1925
Type: Movie
A young Texan known as "Hurricane Hal," saves Bill Adams from Mexican bandits. In gratitude, Adams gives Hal a job on his ranch
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Queen of Aces
Title: Queen of Aces
Character: The Boy's Father
Released: May 13, 1925
Type: Movie
"In "Queen of Aces" released through Universal she [Wanda Wiley] appears as an athletic young woman whom her prospective father-in-law characterizes as a he-woman and forbids her to come to a party in his home. Wanda puts on male attire even donning a mustache. Father takes a shine to the "boy" when "he" says the party is too tame and they slip away to a poker party. The place is raided but they make a getaway and there is a general mix- up when the "boy" is seen slipping into a girl's bedroom." - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World
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Thundering Romance
Title: Thundering Romance
Character: The Oil Representative
Released: December 15, 1924
Type: Movie
A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who is about to lose her ranch when crooks plan to foreclose on it because she doesn't have enough money to make her mortgage payment. He puts together a cattle drive in order to sell the herd to raise the money to pay off the note, but when the crooks hear about this, they make plans to stampede the herd along the way.
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The Phantom Horseman
Title: The Phantom Horseman
Character: Judge
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Sheriff Bob Winton sets out to capture a mysterious bandit named "The Hawk," a phantom rider who is admired by the townspeople, because he steals from the Williams Lumber Co., a ruthless outfit determined to own all the land in the vicinity. This is a lost film.
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The First Degree
Title: The First Degree
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Sam Bass receives a summons to testify before a grand jury, and not realizing that the matter concerns sheep-stealing he assumes it to concern the murder of his brother, Will.
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The Long Chance
Title: The Long Chance
Character: Dr. Taylor
Released: October 2, 1922
Type: Movie
Harley P. Hennage, town gambler, takes under his protection Dana Corbaly when her widowed mother dies. He becomes suspicious of the motives of Bob McGraw, a young engineer who has come to town to investigate the mining claim of Dana's father, John Corbaly. But events reveal that he is only the tool of Corbaly's former partner, capitalist T. Morgan Carey.
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In the Days of Buffalo Bill
Title: In the Days of Buffalo Bill
Character: Calvert Carter
Released: September 11, 1922
Type: Movie
Western film serial featuring Buffalo Bill
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Perils of the Yukon
Title: Perils of the Yukon
Character: Scott McPherson
Released: July 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6. Menace of Death; 7. Trapped by Fire; 8. Hurled into Space; 9. The Gold Rush; 10. Valley of Death; 11. A Race for Life; 12. The Path of Doom; 13. Martial Law; 14. Trail of Vengeance; 15. The Final Reckoning.
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The Jaws of Steel
Title: The Jaws of Steel
Character: Aaron Duncan - Jeanne's Father
Released: June 10, 1922
Type: Movie
The Jaws of Steel is a 1922 Silent Western.
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Never Let Go
Title: Never Let Go
Character: The Storekeeper
Released: May 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Never Let Go is a 1922 Western short.
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Headin' West
Title: Headin' West
Character: Barnaby Forest
Released: February 13, 1922
Type: Movie
Bill Perkins, a war veteran bumming his way across the country with an airplane pilot, is forced to disembark via parachute when he arrives at a familiar spot. He lands in the midst of a cattlemen's dispute, gets a job as a dishwasher, and learns of a conspiracy to steal the ranch from its absent heir.
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The Fire Eater
Title: The Fire Eater
Character: Mort Frame
Released: December 24, 1921
Type: Movie
Partners "Smilin' Bob" Corey and Jim O'Neil are forest rangers sent to peacefully "penetrate" Paradise Valley, which is scheduled to become part of a national park. Although the townspeople are sullen about their presence, they manage to befriend Marie Roselli, an Italian girl whose brother Wolf owns a cattle ranch and from they obtain supplies. Before they; know it, Bob and Jim get caught up in a kidnapping, an illegal logging ring, and a murder.
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The Dawn of Understanding
Title: The Dawn of Understanding
Character: Silas Prescott
Released: December 2, 1918
Type: Movie
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.
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The Further Adventures of Stingaree
Title: The Further Adventures of Stingaree
Character: Black Hill
Released: June 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The movie serial sequel featuring Stingaree
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The Hazards of Helen
Title: The Hazards of Helen
Character: Various Role
Released: February 24, 1917
Type: Movie
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.
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The Sidetracked Sleeper
Title: The Sidetracked Sleeper
Character: George Summers
Released: February 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Rupert Winslow, traffic superintendent of the railroad that employs Helen as operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram stating that his wife, who is ill, will be on the midnight express. He calls in Summers, a veteran brakeman on the passenger run and instructs him to watch over Mrs. Winslow and to sidetrack her sleeper if she requires medical attention.
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The Prima Donna's Special
Title: The Prima Donna's Special
Character: 'Dad' Morley
Released: February 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Helen, station agent and telegraph operator at Lone Point, is in despair over a broken sounder when Morley, who has dropped off a passing freight, offers to fix it for her. Recognizing in him a man whose skill points back to happier days, Helen encourages him to tell her his story, promising to get him the position of relief operator if he cares to accept it. Morley's story takes him back several years to the time when he gave up his position as an operator following the death of his wife. He has never seen his little daughter since turning her over to the care of a rich brother.
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The Death Siding
Title: The Death Siding
Character: The Sheriff
Released: February 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Helen, the telegraph operator at the Lone Point Station, shields Miguel, a greaser, under suspicion of having stolen some horses, until the real thieves are caught.
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The Railroad Claim Intrigue
Title: The Railroad Claim Intrigue
Character: Fleming
Released: January 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Barstow, a crook, conceives the idea of buying old automobiles, staging "accidents" with them, and settling with the railroad. At the Lone Point crossing one of his machines is hit by the train and the flagman is discharged because it appears that he has been negligent. Helen, the telegraph operatic, gets a day off and starts for the hills on horseback. She meets Duncan, a railroad detective sent to investigate the increasing number of crossing accidents.
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The Wrecked Station
Title: The Wrecked Station
Character: Stanton Grey
Released: January 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Helen, the telegraph operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram for Sydney Wayne, superintendent of the Graham Gravel plant, advising him that the plant has changed ownership and that Stanton Grey accompanied by his daughter Edith, is on his way to Lone Point to inspect the property. Wayne is startled because he has gambled away the company's money and realizes that his books will not balance. Fortune appears to favor him when Grey is carried into the station unconscious as the result of an automobile accident. He extracts Grey's wallet from his pocket but Cole, the gambler, who has trailed Wayne gets a photograph of him in the act. With the photographic evidence, the gambler tries to blackmail Wayne.
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The Fireman's Nemesis
Title: The Fireman's Nemesis
Character: Chief Dispatcher
Released: January 13, 1917
Type: Movie
Joe, the Wop, employed in the roundhouse near Lone Point is notified that he has been promoted and will take his place that night as a fireman on the local freight. On his way home he stops at the station to tell Helen, the operator, of his good fortune. As Joe starts down the track towards home, Scarlotta, a member of a notorious vendetta that has marked Joe for death, shoots him from ambush. Helen sees Joe fall in the middle of the track and barely succeeds in dragging him to safety out of the path of the limited. Joe's wound is not serious and that night he takes his place as fireman on the freight. Determined to "get" Joe, Scarlotta visits the station where Helen is still at her key and after binding her and locking her in a closet, throws the switch so that the freight will collide with the cars on the siding.
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The Mogul Mountain Mystery
Title: The Mogul Mountain Mystery
Character: Division Superintendant
Released: January 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Bert Morgan and "Squint" Booth are freight agents for rival railroads concerned in getting the contract for hauling the gold ore produced by the Mogul Mountain mine. The contract finally falls to the road employing Morgan upon his promise to have cars in operation over an abandoned spur track within three weeks' time.
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A Race with Death
Title: A Race with Death
Character: Purdy - the Rancher
Released: December 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Film #112 in the Hazards of Helen series.
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The Vanishing Box Car
Title: The Vanishing Box Car
Character: Hedley
Released: December 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Film 111 of the Hazards of Helen film series
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The Midnight Express
Title: The Midnight Express
Character: Banker Randall
Released: December 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Film #110 in the Hazards of Helen series.
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The Lineman's Peril
Title: The Lineman's Peril
Character: Superintendent of the Road
Released: December 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Film #109 in the Hazards of Helen series
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The Trial Run
Title: The Trial Run
Character: Morton of the United Fruit Growers
Released: December 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Film 108 in the Hazards of Helen series
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The Forgotten Train Order
Title: The Forgotten Train Order
Character: Mr. Purdy
Released: November 25, 1916
Type: Movie
107th film in the Hazards of Helen series
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The Runaway Sleeper
Title: The Runaway Sleeper
Character: Mr. Grayson
Released: November 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Film 106 in the Hazards of Helen series
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The Lone Point Mystery
Title: The Lone Point Mystery
Character: The President of the Railroad
Released: November 11, 1916
Type: Movie
Film 105 in the Hazards of Helen series
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The Gate of Death
Title: The Gate of Death
Character: Superintendent Purdy
Released: November 4, 1916
Type: Movie
Film 104 in the Hazards of Helen series
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The Lost Messenger
Title: The Lost Messenger
Character: Landers - the President of the Railroad
Released: October 28, 1916
Type: Movie
Film 103 in the Hazards of Helen series
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A Daring Chance
Title: A Daring Chance
Character: The President of the Railroad
Released: October 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Film 102 in the Hazards of Helen series.
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To Save the Special
Title: To Save the Special
Character: The President of the Railroad
Released: October 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Film 101 in the Hazards of Helen series
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The Blocked Track
Title: The Blocked Track
Character: The Butler - Ex-Telegrapher
Released: October 7, 1916
Type: Movie
On a visit to the State Prison with Superintendent Melvin of the construction camp near Lone Point. Helen gains the friendship of Butler, a former telegrapher who had been wrongfully convicted on circumstantial evidence. Butler is soon to be released and Helen promises to aid him.
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The Death Swing
Title: The Death Swing
Character: Mr. Benton - Dick's Father
Released: September 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Stallings' plot to spoil the demonstration of Dick Benton's newly invented safety stop for trains seems certain of success when the locomotive is sent running wild down the tracks. Helen saves the day by climbing out on a wire stretching across the tracks and dropping to the speeding engine.
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Defying Death
Title: Defying Death
Character: The President of the Road
Released: September 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Dick Benton, a young attorney of the railroad, is on his way to the Capitol to deliver evidence involving Riggs in a conspiracy arising out of a fight with the railroad over a franchise. At Lone Point he learns that by leaving the package to be picked up by the express it will reach the Governor sooner than he can bring it on the local.
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The Hoodoo of Division B
Title: The Hoodoo of Division B
Character: Kent - the Veteran Engineer
Released: September 16, 1916
Type: Movie
The new superintendent scoffs at the men's fear of Engine 3615, and declares that it must be put into service at once. Engineer Kent, a veteran of the road, refuses to take the throttle and is discharged. Dick Benton, a young engineer, is induced to take the engine out and "kill this talk of a hoodoo."
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Ablaze on the Rails
Title: Ablaze on the Rails
Character: Benton
Released: September 9, 1916
Type: Movie
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.
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The Secret of the Box Car
Title: The Secret of the Box Car
Character: The Bank Official
Released: September 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Escaping after an early morning bank robbery, Gentleman Joe and his pal succeed in boarding a freight train headed toward Lone Point. Fearing rightly that a warning has been sent down the line, they secrete their loot in a box car, and, after noting its number, alight and seek cover until after the pursuit has cooled.
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At Danger's Call
Title: At Danger's Call
Character: Superintendent Waller
Released: August 26, 1916
Type: Movie
Helen, discharged by the superintendent without justification, comes to the rescue when a flat car, loaded with dynamite, is tearing to certain destruction down the grade, bearing the mischievous son of the superintendent.
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With the Aid of the Wrecker
Title: With the Aid of the Wrecker
Character: Greggs - the Diamond Dealer
Released: August 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Greggs, returning from abroad with a large consignment of precious stones, thwarts the first attempt of Gentleman Joe and his accomplice to rob him at his hotel, but they follow him aboard the train the when he is alone on the observation platform they attack him, and a struggle ensues in which Greggs is finally thrown to the ground from the speeding train. Helen, riding through the hills in an auto, comes upon him before Joe and his pal can alight from the train, Greggs gives her the diamonds and tells her to speed away and rush help back to take care of his injuries.
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Hurled Through the Drawbridge
Title: Hurled Through the Drawbridge
Character: Sinton
Released: August 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Learning that the driver of the Comet car has been disabled on the eve of the big race, Sinton, a gambler, bets heavily on its rival. But his plans go awry when Gordon, the owner of the Comet car, meets Naroche, a celebrated French driver, and engages him to pilot the racer.
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A Mystery of the Rails
Title: A Mystery of the Rails
Character: The Sheriff
Released: August 5, 1916
Type: Movie
Jud Hendricks, foreman of the construction camp, is being blackmailed by Gypsy Joe, who knows of a dark page in the Hendricks' past. Hendricks and Tom Rasom are rivals for the favor of Helen, with Tom in the lead. The latter, an engineer, is about to take his train out when he finds Gypsy Joe hiding in a boxcar.
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A Plunge from the Sky
Title: A Plunge from the Sky
Character: 1st Foreign Agent
Released: July 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Agents of a foreign power are seeking to get possession of the plans of a new aeroplane motor invented by Dick Benton. Under cover of darkness they succeed in their scheme and are escaping in their automobile when it plunges over an embankment near Lone Point.
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The Broken Brake
Title: The Broken Brake
Character: The Doctor
Released: July 15, 1916
Type: Movie
In a scuffle between the assistant foreman and a discharged employee at the mountain construction camp the latter's revolver is fired, bringing about a dynamite explosion that severely injures many of the men.
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To Save the Road
Title: To Save the Road
Character: Senator Brown
Released: July 8, 1916
Type: Movie
The vote stands a tie on the railroad bill that will mean ruin to the Western line should it pass the State Legislature. By getting Senator Brown, who is aboard a liner quarantined in the bay, to the Capitol the day will be saved. The road superintendent takes a daring chance and aboard a motorboat succeeds in smuggling the Senator ashore and to a Western special which speeds off towards the Capitol of the neighboring State.
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The Engineer's Honor
Title: The Engineer's Honor
Character: Auditor Blake
Released: July 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Circumstances make Helen think that Jack, the engineer and son of the road's auditor, is guilty of the theft of $50 that comes to light through a shortage in her accounts. Gypsy Joe, the real thief, gathers his followers to seek vengeance on the train crew for having thrown him off the train.
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The Mysterious Cipher
Title: The Mysterious Cipher
Character: Chilton - Dealer in Antiques
Released: June 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Chilton, a crooked dealer in antiques, decides on a daring scheme to recoup his finances by defrauding the railroad. A car-load of cheap furniture is shipped with a valuation of $40,000 on it. Blanding, the tool of Chilton and his partner, awaits at Lone Point a telegram giving the number of the car.
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In Death's Pathway
Title: In Death's Pathway
Character: Mr. Burkett - Eleanor's Father
Released: June 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Burkett, superintendent of the Western Railway, opposes his daughter's friendship for Dick Benton, one of the company's lawyers, favoring the latter's fellow-worker, Guy Warren. Warren succeeds in putting through a scheme which results in Dick's discharge. The lovers plan to elope and enlist the aid of Helen. But Eleanor's father learns of the move and wires ahead to police officials to board her train and arrest her while he follows in his special. By a daring leap from a handcar to the train Helen succeeds in warning Eleanor of her peril, but is too late, and Helen and Dick are forced to stand idly by while Burkett starts on the return trip in his special, carefully guarding Eleanor.
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A Race Through the Air
Title: A Race Through the Air
Released: June 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The 84th film in the Hazards of Helen series
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The Spiked Switch
Title: The Spiked Switch
Character: Engineer Trent
Released: June 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Trent returns to the throttle too soon after his recovery from illness. On the following day Ruth, his daughter, and Hume plan to elope. Trent, with a new fireman, is suddenly taken with a weak spell and when the fireman becomes panic-stricken there is a scuffle which ends with the fireman thrown to the ground while the fast freight speeds on.
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The Capture of Red Stanley
Title: The Capture of Red Stanley
Character: The Chief Dispatcher
Released: May 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Red Stanley's band has successfully robbed the express car and the members are making good their escape when they come upon Helen and her girl chum riding in the woods. The girls are set upon but they succeed by desperate riding in making their escape temporarily and, when danger seems near again, are saved by the approaching railroad detectives searching for the Stanley band. A running fight results in the capture of one of the band, but Stanley and his chief aide escape. Under cover of darkness, as Helen is working alone in the desolate station, the two enter and bind and gag her.
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One Chance in a Hundred
Title: One Chance in a Hundred
Character: The Construction Boss
Released: May 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Billy Warren, timekeeper on the construction job, arouses the enmity of Brent and Easton when he resents their bullying of the other men. Pay day finds the men celebrating in riotous fashion, and Brent in a crazed moment breaks into the station and attacks Helen. Her cries bring Warren, who trounces the bully.
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The Bridge of Danger
Title: The Bridge of Danger
Character: Pop Bates
Released: May 13, 1916
Type: Movie
The new superintendent's first order on taking the post eliminates the men whom he terms old, which costs "Pop" Bates his job as Helen's relief operator. His next declaration is that active railroad work is no place for women, and Helen is also dropped from the service. While Helen is breaking the news to Bob Bates, the new superintendent is hustling about the road yard speeding up the work. "Put more snap into your switching," he tells the men. A minute later, while he is making an inspection inside a boxcar with defective air brakes, a switching engine rams the car. The force of the impact, heightened by the recent orders, throws the superintendent to the floor stunned, and starts the car on the down grade. In the few moments it is speeding along the road and there is consternation among the men for a washout down the road means that it is headed to certain destruction.
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The Human Telegram
Title: The Human Telegram
Character: The President of the Western Railway
Released: May 6, 1916
Type: Movie
To prevent a three mile journey around the mountain the telegraph wires at the construction camp have been strung over the precipice from the station on the mountain top. The operator is discharged when the superintendent suspects him of treachery and Helen is transferred to the station. Later, after the former operator has enlisted the aid of crooked brokers to use his knowledge in ruining the value of the road's stock, he receives an opportunity to get revenge on the superintendent.
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The Trail of Danger
Title: The Trail of Danger
Character: The Train Despatcher
Released: April 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Following the wreck of the pay-car, it is rifled by a band of conspirators. All but one of the band later succeed in making their escape from the town by automobile, but this one is forced to jump aboard a freight train to which is attached the wreck train and huge crane.
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The Governor's Special
Title: The Governor's Special
Character: The Governor (as George Williams)
Released: April 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The film is directed by James Davis from a story by Edward T. Matlack. In this episode Helen Gibson performs one absolutely breathtaking stunt, which just shows how dangerous it was to act for silent film pioneers, especially for stuntmen and stuntwomen. There is a twist to the plot, and Helen Gibson not only has to save her governor from mortal danger, but also the life of somebody close to her, who has been sentenced to die without guilt.
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The Record Run
Title: The Record Run
Character: Railroad President Benton
Released: April 8, 1916
Type: Movie
The story is built around the rivalry of two railroads, and the record run that is to decide the awarding of large mail contracts.
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The Wrong Door
Title: The Wrong Door
Character: Hardy
Released: February 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Young industrial tycoon Philip Borden is smitten by musical-comedy star Miss Frou Frou, who in daily life is Fern Hardy, the foster daughter of a repentant thief who is pressured into robbing Borden's company. When Hardy, Fern's father, tries to make Bates, the leader of his criminal gang, return the stolen money, Bates beats and incarcerates Hardy.
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Title: The Dumb Girl of Portici
Released: January 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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The Broken Rail
Title: The Broken Rail
Character: Markey - Division Superintendent
Released: September 4, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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Train Order Number Forty-Five
Title: Train Order Number Forty-Five
Character: Loring - Division Superintendent
Released: August 28, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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A Perilous Chance
Title: A Perilous Chance
Character: Pike - Chief of the Railroad Detectives
Released: August 21, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl on the Engine
Title: The Girl on the Engine
Character: McKay - Division Superintendent
Released: July 24, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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A Deed of Daring
Title: A Deed of Daring
Character: Norton - Chief of the Smuggling Gang
Released: July 17, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Fate of Number One
Title: The Fate of Number One
Character: Gerald - Division Superintendent
Released: July 13, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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A Wild Ride
Title: A Wild Ride
Released: July 10, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Midnight Limited
Title: The Midnight Limited
Character: Griffin - a Traveler
Released: July 3, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Pay Train
Title: The Pay Train
Character: O'Malley - Section Foreman
Released: June 11, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Human Chain
Title: The Human Chain
Character: Deering - Head of the Wharf Rat Gang
Released: June 5, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Box Car Trap
Title: The Box Car Trap
Character: Gerald - Engineer of the Power Plant
Released: May 1, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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A Race for a Crossing
Title: A Race for a Crossing
Character: Sharky - Agent of the Rival Road
Released: April 24, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl Engineer
Title: The Girl Engineer
Character: Williams - Owner of the Boss Mine
Released: April 17, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl on the Trestle
Title: The Girl on the Trestle
Character: Passenger Conductor
Released: April 10, 1915
Type: Movie
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
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A Life in the Balance
Title: A Life in the Balance
Character: Corning - Conductor
Released: April 3, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Girl at Lone Point
Title: The Girl at Lone Point
Character: Spud Hogan - Tommy's Pal
Released: March 27, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Death Train
Title: The Death Train
Character: Duncan - Secret Service Detective
Released: March 6, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Title: The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Character: The Constable
Released: February 6, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Broken Circuit
Title: The Broken Circuit
Character: Wilkens - the Paymaster
Released: January 16, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Hazards of Helen Ep09: The Leap from the Water Tower
Title: The Hazards of Helen Ep09: The Leap from the Water Tower
Character: Cleland - the Trainmaster
Released: January 9, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Flying Freight's Captive
Title: The Flying Freight's Captive
Character: Houk - a Detective
Released: December 12, 1914
Type: Movie
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.
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The Stolen Engine
Title: The Stolen Engine
Character: Tom O'Grady - Section Foreman
Released: December 5, 1914
Type: Movie
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.
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The Plot at the Railroad Cut
Title: The Plot at the Railroad Cut
Character: Haddon, the Contractor
Released: November 21, 1914
Type: Movie
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.
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His Nemesis
Title: His Nemesis
Character: G.H. Manning
Released: November 18, 1914
Type: Movie
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.
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The Lost Mail Sack
Title: The Lost Mail Sack
Character: John Gates
Released: October 7, 1914
Type: Movie
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.
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The Car of Death
Title: The Car of Death
Character: Rev. Haskins
Released: August 28, 1914
Type: Movie
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.
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The Operator at Black Rock
Title: The Operator at Black Rock
Character: Tom - Ruth's sweetheart
Released: August 5, 1914
Type: Movie
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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Kaintucky Bill
Title: Kaintucky Bill
Character: Zeb Plunkett
Released: July 7, 1914
Type: Movie
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.
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The Flaw in the Alibi
Title: The Flaw in the Alibi
Character: Henry FIelding - Banker
Released: June 29, 1914
Type: Movie
It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the assistant cashier.