Movies: Helen Holmes

  • 1914
    The Operator at Black Rock

    The Operator at Black Rock (1914)

    The Operator at Black Rock

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    The holdup of the Fast Mail; the runaway train, and the leap on horseback from a fifty-foot cliff are just some of the action...

    The Operator at Black Rock
  • 1915
    The Substitute Fireman

    The Substitute Fireman (1915)

    The Substitute Fireman

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    A warm friendship springs up between Quirkly and Helen, when the fireman saves the girl's life. In his desire to be near Helen, Quirkly obtains a room in the house where the girl telegrapher boards. Badger, a crook, stopping in the same house, learns...

    The Substitute Fireman
  • 1915
    The Girl at Lone Point

    The Girl at Lone Point (1915)

    The Girl at Lone Point

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    Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train because of a hot box and are attempting to rifle the safe. The yeggmen escape aboard a passing freight with Helen, who has leaped upon the caboose, in h...

    The Girl at Lone Point
  • 1915
    A Railroader's Bravery

    A Railroader's Bravery (1915)

    A Railroader's Bravery

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    When Helen learns that wiretappers have make a prisoner of Henry, the relief operator, she severs the wire being tapped, boards a freight train, uncouples the engine, and pursues the tappers, who are in a gasoline speeder. She eventually rescues Henr...

    A Railroader's Bravery
  • 1915
    The Girl Engineer

    The Girl Engineer (1915)

    The Girl Engineer

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    A crooked mine owner attempts to hijack his rival's shipment of ore, but Helen foils his plot by jumping onto the engine and pulling the throttle wide open, eventually exposing the unscrupulous villain....

    The Girl Engineer
  • 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
  • 1915
    The Runaway Boxcar

    The Runaway Boxcar (1915)

    The Runaway Boxcar

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    Disguised as car repairmen, Mealius and Denney get aboard the express car, overpower the express messenger and steal a valuable package being forwarded to Arlington. Helen sees the crooks jumping from the car when it stops for water at Lone Point and...

    The Runaway Boxcar
  • 1916
    Whispering Smith

    Whispering Smith (1916)

    Whispering Smith

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    Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is nothing of the bully or braggart about him. He is only a man who knows instinctively what is right an...

    Whispering Smith
  • 1924
    40-Horse Hawkins

    40-Horse Hawkins (1924)

    40-Horse Hawkins

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    Luke Hawkins, the jack-of-all-trades of the western town of Lariat, falls in love with Mary Darling, the leading lady in a traveling theatrical troupe (of the old-fashioned "mortgage melodrama" variety). He follows her to New York, takes another seri...

    40-Horse Hawkins
  • 1915
    The Engineer's Peril

    The Engineer's Peril (1915)

    The Engineer's Peril

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    Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a notorious swindler, is headed for Montville. Anna later brings about Hudson's arrest when the man, posing as a minister, attempts to swindle the peopl...

    The Engineer's Peril
  • 1915
    A Desperate Leap

    A Desperate Leap (1915)

    A Desperate Leap

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    As the freight train on which are riding Mike and Leary, two knights of the road, passes the station at Hynes, the tramps steal the mail bag which had been placed on the crane by the postmaster of that place. They jump from the train in a secluded sp...

    A Desperate Leap
  • 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 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
  • 1915
    The Girl on the Trestle

    The Girl on the Trestle (1915)

    The Girl on the Trestle

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    A wagon load of powder explodes, destroying the railroad trestle under which it is passing; Helen, knowing that a passenger train is due within a few minutes, climbs aboard a freight car which coasts down a steep grade near the trestle. As it nears t...

    The Girl on the Trestle
  • 1915
    Nerves of Steel

    Nerves of Steel (1915)

    Nerves of Steel

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    Detective Strong is warned that an attempt will be made to free the crooks he is taking to the penitentiary. In spite of his vigilance, the prisoners escape when confederates start a gunfight on the train. Strong and his men scour the countryside for...

    Nerves of Steel
  • 1915
    The Midnight Limited

    The Midnight Limited (1915)

    The Midnight Limited

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    Under the influence of liquor, Griffin foolishly displays a roll of bills. Wheeler and Walter, yeggmen, see the money and trail the traveler to the station. The men learn the berth he is to occupy. Hastening to a bridge under which the train must pas...

    The Midnight Limited
  • 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
    The Stolen Engine

    The Stolen Engine (1914)

    The Stolen Engine

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    A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engineer to aid their escape. Learning this, Helen climbs into the cab of a locomotive standing on a siding and takes up the chase....

    The Stolen Engine
  • 1915
    The Box Car Trap

    The Box Car Trap (1915)

    The Box Car Trap

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    Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brake apparatus. As a result, the box car runs wild, trapping him inside. Before Helen can sidetrack the runaway, it shoots off the track at Elbow curve, ...

    The Box Car Trap
  • 1915
    A Perilous Chance

    A Perilous Chance (1915)

    A Perilous Chance

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    Bull, Reno and Red make a getaway after holding up the Limited. Helen later sees the men and summons the detectives. The convicts escape from the trap and board a passing freight. Helen also succeeds in getting aboard. The train crew discovers the fu...

    A Perilous Chance