The Fiend at the Throttle (1915)

Rita, a telegraph operator, informed that a freight train which is due to pass her station filled with high explosives is about to be overtaken by a passenger train on the same track with a madman at the controls, leaps onto a handcar, which she crashes into the passenger train and thus stops it; she jumps onto the cowcatcher, and into the cab of the engine, where, after a hard struggle with the fiend, she manages to overcome him and sidetrack the passenger train thus preventing disaster.

Released May 15, 1915 90 min None+

Genres: Short, Thriller

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.telegraph-operator, imdb.averting-disaster, mdblist.belongs-to-collection, imdb.train, imdb.insane-man, mdblist.collection-follow-up, aspectratio.1-33-1

Production Companies: Kalem Company

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: No Language, English