The hazards of Helen : 7 great railroad photo plays!.
(DVD)

Videodisc of the motion pictures.

"Silent film with music score."

"2226."

Helen Holmes.

Four episodes of the longest running serial (199 episodes total.).

Helen Holmes stars as a quick-witted heroine, prone to getting in and out of trouble, in this collection of the rare silent adventure series! The daughter of a railroad engineer, Holmes [...] used [her] railroad background in creating The Hazards of Helen. She plays a plucky heroine who usually ended up leaping on and off trains. The young woman's willingness to do her own stunts thrilled audiences, making these short subjects just as popular as the features they accompanied. Holmes and [her husband and director, J. P.] McGowan quit the series in late 1915. [Holmes] was replaced with stuntwoman Rose Wegner Gibson (Gibson [stars in] The Open Track and The Governor's Special [...] in this collection). Unlike the cliffhanger serials of the era, The Hazards of Helen can be watched in any order, with each episode featuring a definite beginning, middle, and end. In a bonus episode, The Grit of the Girl Telegrapher, Anna Q. Nilsson plays a shy telegrapher who foils a gang of train robbers In this vintage short subject also directed by J. P. McGowan.

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