A Life in the Balance

A Life in the Balance

Thriller | April 3, 1915

King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lone Point. Suddenly, the brake chain snaps and the train commences to roll down hill. Helen sees King's peril, rides to a point just before a curve, crawls hand over hand across a rope which she has stretched across the track, and snatches King from the car moments before the car is dashed to pieces as it leaves the rails of the curve.

A Life in the Balance

Thriller | April 3, 1915

A Life in the Balance
King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lone Point. Suddenly, the brake chain snaps and the train commences to roll down hill. Helen sees King's peril, rides to a point just before a curve, crawls hand over hand across a rope which she has stretched across the track, and snatches King from the car moments before the car is dashed to pieces as it leaves the rails of the curve.
Producers Kalem Company
Original title A Life in the Balance
Directors J.P. McGowan
Writers

Cast

Helen Holmes

as Helen

Leo D. Maloney

as King - Brakeman

George A. Williams

as Corning - Conductor