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The Train Wreckers

190512 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

A railway worker's daughter discovers a plan to derail the train driven by the man she loves. After escaping the plotters, she warns him, only to become the target of a second attack on the tracks.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
11:32
Subtitles
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Edwin Stanton Porter · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsEdwin S. Porter

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  • Broncho Billy Anderson — George G. Fraser Studio, San Francisco.; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c27541 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
  • Margaret Illington — Bain News Service; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-B2- 736-9 · Public domain

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