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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 698

The Girl and Her Trust

191217 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 15:02
Subtitles: English

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Wikimedia Commons · D. W. Griffith · Public domain

Subtitles: Wikimedia Commons · Open Classic Cinema

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Synopsis

A telegraph operator receives a large payroll shipment at an otherwise quiet station. When thieves attack, she sends a call for help and tries to stop them from taking the strongbox. Their escape on a railway handcar carries her into a moving confrontation, while a coworker organizes a pursuit by train.

Cast

Dorothy Bernard

Wilfred Lucas

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Behind the scenes

Griffith revisits the railway-office danger of The Lonedale Operator. Here the heroine follows the stolen money out of the station, extending the suspense from a confined room into a chase along the tracks.

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Wilfred Lucas — Photoplay Publishing Co.; Photoplay Magazine vol. 9 December, 1915 pg. 104 · Public domain

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