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.

• Release date
• April 3, 1915
• Runtime
• 12 min
• Genres
• Thriller
• Director
• J.P. McGowan

Cast

Helen Holmes Helen Leo D. Maloney King - Brakeman George A. Williams Corning - Conductor