Summary

1908 silent film clip with woman attempting to stop train robbery despite danger to herself

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # SS 40
Clip SR003627_01_06mov
Date 01/01/1935
Title 1908 silent film clip with woman attempting to stop train robbery despite danger to herself
Description [From Paramount Screen Souvenirs #4-, 1935] [with added VO humorous narration throughout, not part of original movie] Title card: A drammer of railroad life in 1908--when men were as hard as nails and women drove them home‰Û_ [actual film title unknown] / intertitle: Dirty Work on Track Two - the Cast / 1908 silent film clip: Otto says goodbye to girlfriend Nell / Nell takes Otto his lunch / Jake and band of train wreckers plot in forest / intertitle / Nell overhears the robbers' plot and they catch her and tie her to a tree / robbers place logs on train tracks / in which Nell overhears plot to rob train and tries to stop it / Nell's dog unties rope, freeing her from tree / she hastens to the train track, tries to remove logs
Country United States

Keywords

archival
newsreel
Paramount Pictures
Screen Souvenirs
silent films
movie shorts
movies
robberies
trains
danger
dogs
women
men
rescues
heroes
crimes
fugitives
melodramas
railroad tracks
logs
crime
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