The Fiend at the Throttle (1915)
Rita, a telegraph operator, informed that a freight train which is due to pass her station filled with high explosives is about to be overtaken by a passenger train on the same track with a madman at the controls, leaps onto a handcar, which she crashes into the passenger train and thus stops it; she jumps onto the cowcatcher, and into the cab of the engine, where, after a hard struggle with the fiend, she manages to overcome him and sidetrack the passenger train thus preventing disaster.
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Elsie MacLeod as Rita - a Telegraph Operator |
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John Burden as Hopkins - the Engineer |
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DeVore Palmer as Logan - Operator at Hobart |
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Philip Robson as A Substitute Engineer |
| Writing | Doty Hobart | Writer |