Another Kalem dame to the rescue in this ok action thriller starring Alice Joyce as the daughter of a railway engineer. The usual romantic entanglement is strictly by the numbers, but the climactic scene of Joyce deliberately driving one train into another to avoid disaster is a cut above the usual fare from this era.
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The picture is thrilling
deickemeyer26 October 2015
This is the film, to make which, the producers leased a railroad, and actually smashed two locomotives. And it is quite as thrilling as the title would indicate. A girl runs an engine to meet the wild locomotive, jumping just as the monsters meet, thus saving the special of the president of the road from being smashed by the runaway. As may be expected, the president speedily withdraws his objections to his son's marriage, when he learns that this is the girl to whom the young man is engaged. The picture is thrilling, but the enterprise in making it is one of its most remarkable features. The acting seems almost too realistic in places. - The Moving Picture World, January 21, 1911
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