The Mystery of the Burning Freight - Production & Contact Info

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The Mystery of the Burning Freight (1917)
Short | Short, Drama

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The Mystery of the Burning Freight (1917)

Short | Short, Drama

As a freight passes Lone Point, a young man falls from the brake rods. Helen, the operator, helps him into the station. The stranger reads the headlines of a newspaper lying on the desk. Relieved at not finding the item he had expected he ...See moreAs a freight passes Lone Point, a young man falls from the brake rods. Helen, the operator, helps him into the station. The stranger reads the headlines of a newspaper lying on the desk. Relieved at not finding the item he had expected he turns to thank Helen for her kindness, saying: "My name is Victor Brown. Can you help me secure a position?" The scene shifts to the ward of a hospital in a city several miles distant from Lone Point. A nurse is restraining a patient who in his delirium keeps repeating the name, "Victor Brown. Victor Brown." Time passes and Brown, thanks to Helen, is holding a job as fireman on the local freight. One day when Helen and Brown, off duty, are cantering along the road a shot rings out and Brown pitches off his horse to the roadway. Thanks to a gunmetal cigarette case, Brown is uninjured and he tells his story to Helen. The man who shot him must have been Jim Selby, a gambler, smarting for revenge over a knockdown at Brown's hands. In falling Selby struck his head on the pavement, rendering him unconscious. Thinking he had killed him Brown fled. Sympathizing with Brown, but believing that he should explain matters to his worried father, Helen telegraphs Amos Brown to come to Lone Point. The next day Selby and two hired thugs board the local freight. One of the thugs stays in a coal car while Selby and his confederate work their way over the tender into the engine cab, pitch the engineer out bodily and subdue Brown. After cutting the train just back of the coal car and running ahead for a mile or so, they stop the engine and tie Brown to the pilot. Then they open the throttle and leap off. As the engine and its few cars gather momentum a wisp of smoke curls upward. A cigarette stub has set off the refuse strewn on the floor of the car. Helen hears about the runaway and leaping on a horse she rides down the track to prevent the almost certain destruction of the Special bearing Amos Brown to Lone Point. As the freight whizzes past her she leans out from her saddle and grasps the ladder of the last boxcar. Crossing this the wall of flame confronts her. By lassoing the brake rod of the box car ahead of the fire trap she has provided a perilous way of crossing, but it calls for superhuman nerve to accomplish the feat. However, she does it and reaches the engine in time to close the throttle, throw on the air and bring it to a stop within inches of the oncoming special. There is a happy reunion between father and son in which Helen joins. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Helen Gibson Helen Helen See fewer	Fighting Mad (1917)
Lloyd Whitlock Victor Brown (as L.T. Whitlock) Victor Brown (as L.T. Whitlock) See fewer	The Midnight Express (1924)
George A. Williams Amos Brown (as G.A. Williams) Amos Brown (as G.A. Williams) See fewer	Super Speed (1925)
George Routh Jim Selby Jim Selby See fewer	While the Children Slept (1913)