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Released January 9th, 1915, 'The Leap from the Water Tower' stars Helen Holmes, Leo D. Maloney, J.P. McGowan, George A. Williams The NR movie has a runtime of about 13 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from respected users.
Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day. Learning of the impending peril, Helen dashes to a water tower under which the train must pass, climbs out on the spout, leaps onto the roof of one of the cars, and warns the engineer in time. Helen's heroism wins her another offer of marriage, this time from Wadsworth, the freight engineer, but once again she opts for next weeks hazards instead." .
'The Leap from the Water Tower' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on January 9th, 1915
The Hazards of Helen
Long running movie series adventure train films. This thrill-a-minute series was the longest running of the entire silent film era. It was produced between 1914 and 1917, and consisted of 119 almost weekly episodes. The series began with silent serial film queen Helen Holmes as the star - with an occasional actor taking over the lead. Eventually Helen Gibson took over the role of Helen. Unlike the cliffhanger serials of the era, The Hazards of Helen is actually a film series made up of near autonomous single reel twelve-minute melodramas. Most episodes of this series are presumed lost.
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