Fonds/collection:
DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Remarks:
- 1. Material was received from Dawson City in 2 shipments - 506 reels in 1978 and 26 reels in 1980. Of these 389 reels, primarily of American fiction, were transferred to Library of Congress for conversion. Reference copies of some of these reels were returned to NFTSA.
Accession number:
1979-0191
Title:
The Rail Rider : [incomplete]
Original title:
The Rail Rider
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
World Film Corporation
Production Credit:
- director, Maurice Tourneur; photography, John van den Broek; assistant director/editing, Clarence Brown
Cast credit:
House Peters, Bertram Marburgh, Harry (aka Henry) West, A. Harrington, Zena Keefe
Description:
- Jim Lewis (House Peters) always has been considered the best engineer on the D & O railroad, so when he is fired, the other workers are mystified. Jim's pink slip was signed simply "B", just as the company's firing notices were always signed, and the men assume that the letter stands for the company president, Theodore C. Baker. They convince Jim to go East and confront the much-hated president but when he arrives he finds Theodore to be a charming, sympathetic family man. He then learns that "B" stands for Brown (Bertram Marburgh), the general manager of the railroad who has been running the company behind Theodore's back and has run away with a fortune in railroad securities. Jim goes after Brown and brings him back to face the authorities, after which the recently fired engineer is rehired as Theodore's assistant and then marries Theodore's daughter Mildred (Zena Keefe).
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Copyright Status:
Copyright expired.
Copyright Owner:
- Original copyright owner: World Film Corporation.
Restrictions on Consultation:
~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Donor Restrictions:
No donor restrictions.
Notes:
- 1. US Copyright: World Film Corporation; 12 Aug 16; LU8908.
- 2. Based on the short story "B" by Edgar Franklin.
- 3. Source of subject description: AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1911-1920, page 754.
- 4, Maurice Tourneur, the creator of this film, died in 1961 - under copyright until 31 December 2011.
- 5. "Brady-made".
