Movies: Helen Holmes

  • 1915
    The Girl Telegrapher's Peril

    The Girl Telegrapher's Peril (1915)

    The Girl Telegrapher's Peril

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    Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejects his advances. Helen spies Myra, Blake's three year old daughter, who has ventured onto the tracks of the oncoming Elwood Express, and just in the n...

    The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
  • 1914
    The Flying Freight's Captive

    The Flying Freight's Captive (1914)

    The Flying Freight's Captive

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    Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a box car, but gets loose, and leaps to the ground from the speeding train. The crooks are captured, Hel...

    The Flying Freight's Captive
  • 1914
    Helen's Sacrifice

    Helen's Sacrifice (1914)

    Helen's Sacrifice

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    In the first entry in the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, the night telegraph operator at Lone Point, relieves Benton, the day operator, several hours ahead of time, because he is caring for his sick child. Receiving an order to sidetrack a f...

    Helen's Sacrifice
  • 1915
    A Deed of Daring

    A Deed of Daring (1915)

    A Deed of Daring

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    Upon learning that a gang of smugglers are using freight cars to bring Chinamen across the border, the railroad officials order all employees to keep a strict watch for traffic of this nature....

    A Deed of Daring
  • 1915
    Near Eternity

    Near Eternity (1915)

    Near Eternity

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    A quarryman, dismissed because of intoxication, blames Billy, the mail clerk, and seeks revenge. He steals several sticks of dynamite, climbs to the top of the mail crane and ties to the explosives to the mail bag. Helen sees what is taking place, cl...

    Near Eternity
  • 1915
    A Life in the Balance

    A Life in the Balance (1915)

    A Life in the Balance

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    King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lone Point. Suddenly, the brake chain snaps and the train commences to roll down hill. Helen sees King's peril, rides to a point just before a curve, cra...

    A Life in the Balance
  • 1915
    The Broken Rail

    The Broken Rail (1915)

    The Broken Rail

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    Spang, a tramp telegrapher, is knocked down by a freight car while walking up the siding near Lone Point. Helen witnesses the accident and by quick work saves him from being run over. The girl is later transferred to the shop's office and, due to her...

    The Broken Rail
  • 1925
    The Lost Express

    The Lost Express (1925)

    The Lost Express

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    Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train....

    The Lost Express
  • 1917
    The Railroad Raiders

    The Railroad Raiders (1917)

    The Railroad Raiders

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    A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A Woman's Wit; 6. The Overland Disaster; 7. Mistaken Identity; 8. A Knotted Cord; 9. A Leap for Life; 10....

    The Railroad Raiders
  • 1914
    Kaintucky Bill

    Kaintucky Bill (1914)

    Kaintucky Bill

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    The old sheriff dies. In jest, the mountaineers nominate Kaintucky Bill, the worst moonshiner in the state, for the office. Considering it a huge joke, Kaintucky Bill takes the oath of office....

    Kaintucky Bill
  • 1915
    The Mettle of Jerry McGuire

    The Mettle of Jerry McGuire (1915)

    The Mettle of Jerry McGuire

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    Helen is operator at Bells. Jerry McGuire, engineer on the local freight, and Tom Thornton, his fireman, are both rivals for the hand of the girl. Jerry is preferred and Tom tries to get Jerry to take to liquor again, a habit that he has overcome. To...

    The Mettle of Jerry McGuire
  • 1915
    The Broken Train

    The Broken Train (1915)

    The Broken Train

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    Helen spotting two jewel robbers sever the telegraph wires and hop onto a passing freight, jumps into a racing auto and takes off in pursuit. In the meantime, the freight's brakes fail, and the train breaks in two. Helen, on a road parallel to the tr...

    The Broken Train
  • 1915
    A Wild Ride

    A Wild Ride (1915)

    A Wild Ride

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    The bad blood existing between Reardon and Haley results in a fight in which Reardon is worsted. Reardon, vowing vengeance, climbs back aboard his engine while Haley resumes his station. The fight is witnessed by a number of railroad men. In climbing...

    A Wild Ride
  • 1925
    The Fast Freight

    The Fast Freight (1925)

    The Fast Freight

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    Eighth of a series of 8 features produced by Morris R. Schlank starring Helen Holmes and directed by J.P. McGowan for Anchor distribution....

    The Fast Freight
  • 1916
    Medicine Bend

    Medicine Bend (1916)

    Medicine Bend

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    Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars....

    Medicine Bend
  • 1915
    The Girl on the Engine

    The Girl on the Engine (1915)

    The Girl on the Engine

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    When informed by Helen that the rival railroad proposes to cross the Salt Lake's tracks, McKay, Division Superintendent, rushes a guard of men to Lone Point. This temporarily blocks the rival road's plan, but only until its force of men has been stre...

    The Girl on the Engine
  • 1914
    The Car of Death

    The Car of Death (1914)

    The Car of Death

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    In this film Helen Holmes was clearly rehearsing for the role that brought to her fame and recognition in a serial that started getting released two months later. She became the audacious star of "The Hazards of Helen", acting as the heroine of nume...

    The Car of Death
  • 1915
    The Watertank Plot

    The Watertank Plot (1915)

    The Watertank Plot

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    Fearing lest Cameron's horse beat the pony he has plunged on, Tony Dorgan orders one of his men to bribe the stableman to drug the animal. Saratoga Johnny tries to carry out Tony's order, but receives a beating at the hands of the irate Cameron emplo...

    The Watertank Plot
  • 1915
    The Open Drawbridge

    The Open Drawbridge (1915)

    The Open Drawbridge

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    Benton, railroad detective, is assigned to run down the crooks who have been breaking into freight cars near Hobart. Helen, the telegraph operator at Hobart, supplies Benton with his first clue. Later in the day, the two see Rand and his band of rive...

    The Open Drawbridge
  • 1915
    When Rogues Fall Out

    When Rogues Fall Out (1915)

    When Rogues Fall Out

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    Holmes, the president of the S.L. Railway, has been trying very hard to secure a new franchise for his company. Frank Hynes, an acquaintance of Helen, the daughter of Holmes, has been a friendly visitor at the house, but, unknown to Helen and her fat...

    When Rogues Fall Out