Movie Description
The Fiend at the Throttle
(1915)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Writer : Doty Hobart
- Cast : Elsie MacLeod,John Burden,DeVore Palmer,Philip Robson
Cast
Rita - a Telegraph Operator
Hopkins - the Engineer
Logan - Operator at Hobart
A Substitute Engineer
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Facts
Original TitleThe Fiend at the Throttle
Status Released
Release Information
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1915-05-15
Original LanguageUnknown
Production CompaniesKalem Company
Genres
- Thriller























