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Saved from the Torrents
(1911) United States of America
B&W : [?] Split-reel?
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Francis X. Bushman [Arthur Chester], Dorothy Phillips [Katie Carrington], Bryant Washburn [Jack Carrington, Katie’s brother]
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by [?] The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Released 16 September 1911; [?] in a split-reel with Live, Love and Believe (1911)? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Young Jack Carrington has fallen into bad company and one day he runs away from home to a neighboring town, where he gets into trouble. His sister is loved by Arthur Chester, the station agent, and through him Katie receives word from her brother that he is eluding the police and will endeavor to take the through express back to his home town. The girl goes to the station, where Arthur is handed a message by the sheriff to the police officials in the other town to arrest young Carrington at the station, and the girl, in order to save her brother, persuades Arthur to leave the telegraph office for a moment after which she bolts the door and prevents him from entering. It is just a moment or two before the express is scheduled to leave the other town when Arthur receives word that the railroad trestle over the Chippewa River is in danger from the torrents and to stop the express at the other station. Despite his mad entreaties to the girl to let him in she refuses to do so until the train has left, after which she learns to her horror that she has only sent her brother to his death. There follows a race on a hand-car by the girl and Arthur, between the fast approaching express train, which ends successfully in the two passing over the trestle and stopping the train just as the structure collapses.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Law: Enforcement: Police: Policemen - Rescues - Transportation: Trains
Listing updated: 8 October 2023.
References: Maturi-Bushman pp. 108-109 : Website-IMDb.
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