The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children

  • Genre: Thriller
  • Run time: 13 min
  • Premiere: 1915. October 30.

Discharged for drinking, Coleman attempts to get even by releasing the brakes on an empty boxcar, to which is coupled a flatcar, allowing them to run wild down the main line on which he knows the president's special is coming. Coleman does not know that his children, Helen and Paul, are playing on the flat car.

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Robyn Adair

Healy - Freight Conductor

Clarence Burton

Dispatcher

Jeanie Antibus

Mrs. Coleman - Wife

Norma Thelan

Helen Coleman - Daughter

Bobbie Antibus

Paul Coleman - Son

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