Robyn Adair

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The Impostor
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The Impostor

Nov 12, 1913

The Impostor
1913 137 min 1 vues
Jim Owens, a sergeant in the Union army, finds the body of a dead Confederate, whose resemblance to himself is so great that he is startled. He makes an examination of the man's clothes and finds a letter addressed to John Calhoun, 7th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers. The letter is from the man's mother, telling him that her world is very narrow now that she has lost her eyesight. Never having known a mother's love, Owens decides to impersonate Calhoun, feeling that the mother will not recognize that he is not her son, now that she is blind.
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The Detective's Peril
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The Detective's Peril

Mar 25, 1916

The Detective's Peril
1916 13 min 1 vues
Hanging from a rope over the track, the detective seems certain to plunge to death when the oncoming train splits the knot of the rope which has been tied to a rail and slung over the bridge girder. Helen's presence of mind and nerve in swinging out over the river on the other end of the rope and thus balancing the detective until the train has passed prevents the terrible catastrophe. Later, when pursuing the culprits, Helen once more takes her life in her hands by throwing a lasso from the hand car on which they are pursuing the freight over the brake beam, and then crawling hand over hand to the top of the car.
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Nerves of Steel
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Nerves of Steel

Sep 11, 1915

Nerves of Steel
1915 15 min 1 vues
Detective Strong is warned that an attempt will be made to free the crooks he is taking to the penitentiary. In spite of his vigilance, the prisoners escape when confederates start a gunfight on the train. Strong and his men scour the countryside for the fugitives.
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The Limited's Peril
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The Limited's Peril

Aug 14, 1915

The Limited's Peril
1915 13 min 1 vues
Wharton, trailing Red Leary and his gang, learns that the men intend to wreck the Limited. Curley, a fireman, is implicated. The crooks become aware of Wharton's presence and attack him. Helen comes to the detective's rescue with a revolver and captures one of the men.
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A Perilous Chance
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A Perilous Chance

Aug 21, 1915

A Perilous Chance
1915 13 min 1 vues
Bull, Reno and Red make a getaway after holding up the Limited. Helen later sees the men and summons the detectives. The convicts escape from the trap and board a passing freight. Helen also succeeds in getting aboard. The train crew discovers the fugitives. Reno, in charge of the valise containing the loot, throws it into the boxcar ahead.
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The Quest
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The Quest

Mar 22, 1915

The Quest
1915 137 min 1 vues
John Douglas, a high-society playboy, is a cynic concerning the women of his social set, and has a pictured ideal of the girl of his dreams. Wising to avoid the upcoming social season, he hops a freighter bound for the Orient. It sinks in mid-ocean and he, as the sole survivor, is washed upon a island, where he is rescued by Nia, daughter of the tribal chief, Neto.John is puzzled as all of the tribe are white people, but he learns from the tribal chief they are descendant's of English-origin who also are on the island because of a ship wreck a few hundred years ago.
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The Substitute Fireman
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The Substitute Fireman

Aug 07, 1915

The Substitute Fireman
1915 13 min 1 vues
A warm friendship springs up between Quirkly and Helen, when the fireman saves the girl's life. In his desire to be near Helen, Quirkly obtains a room in the house where the girl telegrapher boards. Badger, a crook, stopping in the same house, learns that Quirkly is in the habit of carrying his savings in a bag suspended from his neck. Entering the room with a confederate, Badger chloroforms the fireman and steals the money. Helen hears the noise of the struggle, but comes too late to apprehend the crooks.
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Train Order Number Forty-Five
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Train Order Number Forty-Five

Aug 28, 1915

Train Order Number Forty-Five
1915 13 min 1 vues
Borden, who nurses a secret grievance against Helen, awaits an opportunity for revenge. The girl telegrapher receives a message which informs her that the freight of which Easton is conductor, is to wait at Workman until the Fast Mail passes.
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A Girl's Grit
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A Girl's Grit

Sep 18, 1915

A Girl's Grit
1915 13 min 1 vues
After robbing the bank at Orlock, Cherry and Newton make their getaway. When on the outskirts of Lone Point, the men cut the telephone wires. Helen, however, learns of the robbery. Never suspecting that the crooks are headed for the station, the girl is taken by surprise when Newton and his pal hold her up.
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A Matter of Seconds
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A Matter of Seconds

Sep 25, 1915

A Matter of Seconds
1915 13 min 1 vues
Dawson, a newcomer to the division, meets Helen while the girl is riding in the freight engine with Star, his engineer. Helen ignores the fireman's offensive stares, knowing that trouble would instantly result, if she reported the matter to Star. The following day, Dawson approaches the girl telegrapher and, seizing her in his arms, kisses her.
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The Broken Rail
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The Broken Rail

Sep 04, 1915

The Broken Rail
1915 13 min 1 vues
Spang, a tramp telegrapher, is knocked down by a freight car while walking up the siding near Lone Point. Helen witnesses the accident and by quick work saves him from being run over. The girl is later transferred to the shop's office and, due to her influence.
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The Runaway Boxcar
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The Runaway Boxcar

Aug 02, 1915

The Runaway Boxcar
1915 13 min 1 vues
Disguised as car repairmen, Mealius and Denney get aboard the express car, overpower the express messenger and steal a valuable package being forwarded to Arlington. Helen sees the crooks jumping from the car when it stops for water at Lone Point and gives the alarm.
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A Test of Courage
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A Test of Courage

Oct 16, 1915

A Test of Courage
1915 13 min 1 vues
Confronting Helen at the Lone Point Switch Tower, Denning and his pal imprison the girl in a clothes closet and then steal everything of value. In making their getaway, the crooks accidentally upset a lantern and set the tower afire. Helen, by picking the lock in the door with a hairpin, barely escapes death in the flames.
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The Watertank Plot
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The Watertank Plot

Oct 09, 1915

The Watertank Plot
1915 12 min 1 vues
Fearing lest Cameron's horse beat the pony he has plunged on, Tony Dorgan orders one of his men to bribe the stableman to drug the animal. Saratoga Johnny tries to carry out Tony's order, but receives a beating at the hands of the irate Cameron employee.
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A Mile a Minute
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A Mile a Minute

Oct 23, 1915

A Mile a Minute
1915 12 min 1 vues
Hume and Frintz, while riding in a boxcar, see a trunk in the unguarded baggage car of a passenger train. By a daring leap from the freight to the passenger, Hume steals the trunk, throws it into one of the boxcars, and then leaps back. The trunk is missed and the loss reported from Helen's station.
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The Girl and the Special
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The Girl and the Special

Nov 13, 1915

The Girl and the Special
1915 12 min 1 vues
Disguised as baggage man, Burgess and Whelan board the train to which is coupled the special carrying Nina Mallotte and her theatrical troupe. The thieves plan to steal the actress' gems.
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The Tramp Telegrapher
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The Tramp Telegrapher

Dec 04, 1915

The Tramp Telegrapher
1915 12 min 1 vues
Beaten by Dun and Corson, Trent is hurled unconscious to the tracks. Helen, who witnesses the attack, drags Trent from the rails just in time to save him from death beneath the wheels of an oncoming train. When the tramp revives, he accompanies his rescuer back to the station.
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The Dynamite Train
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The Dynamite Train

Nov 27, 1915

The Dynamite Train
1915 12 min 1 vues
The shifting of the dynamite contained in a boxcar causes the latter to be cut from the freight and set out as unsafe. While this is being done, the Jones gang waylays Emerick, a cattleman who has just sold a herd of stock. Detectives are sent after the thieves.
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The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children
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The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children

Oct 30, 1915

The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children
1915 13 min 1 vues
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.
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Danger Ahead!
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Danger Ahead!

Nov 06, 1915

Danger Ahead!
1915 13 min 1 vues
Sterling and Ella steal a jewelry salesman's sample bag and make their getaway by boarding a passenger train. Word is flashed ahead to Helen, who in turn notifies Bowring, a railroad detective. The train is flagged.
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Crossed Wires
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Crossed Wires

Dec 11, 1915

Crossed Wires
1915 13 min 1 vues
Crossed telephone wires enable Helen to overhear a plot between Joe and Bill, escaped convicts, to join a number of Chinese who are being smuggled into the country in a freight train.
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Tapped Wires
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Tapped Wires

Jan 29, 1916

Tapped Wires
1916 12 min 1 vues
After binding Helen to prevent her from stopping the express train to have it await an armed guard, crooks board the train, disable the messenger and dynamite the safe. Helen later takes a short cut in an auto and overtakes the train, but the crooks leap from the speeding train into her car before she can warn the engineer and train crew.
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The Haunted Station
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The Haunted Station

Jan 15, 1916

The Haunted Station
1916 13 min 1 vues
A fall from a semaphore weakens Wood's mind and when he later disappears circumstances point to suicide. His ghostly appearances make the post known as the "Haunted Station," and Helen is appointed as a last resort after many others have quit.
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At the Risk of Her Life
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At the Risk of Her Life

Jan 01, 1916

At the Risk of Her Life
1916 14 min 1 vues
Tony, a half-breed Mexican is kicked from pillar to post, but he grasps a chance for revenge on society when he peers through the station window and sees Helen, the operator at Lone Point, opening the express company bag containing a valuable shipment to a local rancher.
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The Peril of the Rails
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The Peril of the Rails

Feb 12, 1916

The Peril of the Rails
1916 12 min 1 vues
Apparent carelessness causes Conductor Lawton and his train crew to be laid off for thirty days. A gang of car thieves, pursued by police, jump aboard a freight, and after a stiff combat, succeed in throwing the crew off the speeding train to the ground.
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The Broken Wire
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The Broken Wire

Feb 05, 1916

The Broken Wire
1916 12 min 1 vues
When the Limited is forced to stop because of an obstruction on the tracks, the passengers alight for a stroll. In the excitement of boarding again one of the passengers loses a handbag containing her jewels and money. Two crooks aboard the train hear of this and at Helen's station they alight.
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A Race for a Life
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A Race for a Life

Mar 11, 1916

A Race for a Life
1916 12 min 1 vues
A college boy's prank imperils the life of the railroad president's son who has worked his way up to engineer in his course that starts "from the bottom." Tied to the engine, the son is speeding on a runaway engine toward the Flicker Creek bridge which has been swept away by the floods.
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The Girl Who Dared
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The Girl Who Dared

Mar 18, 1916

The Girl Who Dared
1916 12 min 1 vues
The smugglers seem in a fair way to escape on a stolen engine when Helen, unhitching a team from a nearby wagon, races down the road towards the railroad bridge from which a rope is hanging directly over the track. Standing astride the two speeding horses Helen leaps to the rope, and swaying in mid-air makes a perilous drop to the stolen engine as it dashes past.
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The Open Track
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The Open Track

Jan 22, 1916

The Open Track
1916 10 min 2 vues
"The Open Track" is a short action film from the action series of short films "The Hazards of Helen". This is episode 63 from a total of 119 weekly one reel films produced by Kalem. Helen's cleverness exposes a band of counterfeiters who later succeed in turning the tables on the railroad detectives and tying the two men to the cowcatcher of a train which they then start off down the grade. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
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The Wrong Train Order
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The Wrong Train Order

Dec 19, 1915

The Wrong Train Order
1915 15 min 1 vues
In this episode everything goes wrong. Helen ends up on the rear observation deck of a runaway express train with the door to the inside closed, with the air-brake of the engine damaged, the engine itself full of steam and inaccessible, and the train speeding ahead on the wrong track.
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An Old-Fashioned Girl
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An Old-Fashioned Girl

Feb 02, 1915

An Old-Fashioned Girl
1915 10 min 1 vues
Abigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes from the city to visit in the little town. Her charms prove too strong for Jared, who neglects Abigail to dance attendance upon the new belle. The country girl is broken-hearted, though she hides her sorrow from her erstwhile sweetheart. A wealthy young planter, however, soon cuts out Jared with Bertha.
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