The Fiend at the Throttle (movie)

The Fiend at the Throttle (movie)

  • Production country: United States of America
  • Production companies: Kalem Company
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release date: 5/15/1915

Movie description

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.

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Elsie MacLeod

Elsie MacLeod

Role(s): Rita - a Telegraph Operator

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John Burden

John Burden

Role(s): Hopkins - the Engineer

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DeVore Palmer

DeVore Palmer

Role(s): Logan - Operator at Hobart

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Philip Robson

Philip Robson

Role(s): A Substitute Engineer

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