A Boy at the Throttle (1915)

A Boy at the Throttle

1915

Thriller

Synopsis

Climbing into a cab of a freight engine, Bobbie Layson, the son of a station pulls the throttle open. The alarm goes out and Helen, stationed at Lone Point, is ordered to derail the runaway and thus prevent it from running head-on into the approaching passenger train. Fearing for his son's life, Layson phones Helen

Credits

Director

J. Gunnis Davis

Cast

Clarence Burton as Layson - Station Agent

Clement Graw as Pinture - Fireman

Franklyn Hall as Odell - Engineer

Helen Gibson as Helen

Tom Trent as Bobbie Layson - the Boy at the Throttle

Crew

Edward T. Matlack (Story)