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A Boy at the Throttle

NR 1915 · 0h 12m · Thriller
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Climbing into a cab of a freight engine, Bobbie Layson, the son of a station pulls the throttle open. The alarm goes out and Helen, stationed at Lone Point, is ordered to derail the runaway and thus prevent it from running head-on into the approaching passenger train. Fearing for his son's life, Layson phones Helen

Theatrical
Dec 25, 1915
Director
J. Gunnis Davis
Writer
Edward T. Matlack
Studio
Kalem Company
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