The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children

Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director J. Gunnis Davis

Status Released

Release Date 1915-10-30

Storyline

Discharged for drinking, Coleman attempts to get even by releasing the brakes on an empty boxcar, to which is coupled a flatcar, allowing them to run wild down the main line on which he knows the president's special is coming. Coleman does not know that his children, Helen and Paul, are playing on the flat car.