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Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Mack Sennett released in USA on 2 june 1913 with Mack Sennett

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (1913)

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
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Released in USA 2 june 1913
Length 13minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Action
Rating59% 2.9978652.9978652.9978652.9978652.997865

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (1913) is a silent comedy short, directed and produced by Mack Sennett and starring Sennett, Mabel Normand, and Barney Oldfield as himself. It is considered one of the earliest to include the plot of a villain tying a young damsel to the tracks of an oncoming locomotive; a holdover from the Gaslight era of Victorian stage melodrama.

Synopsis

Barney Oldfield races a speeding locomotive to rescue a damsel in distress tied up on the tracks by evil villain Ford Sterling.

Actors

Mack Sennett

(Mabel's Boyfriend)Mabel Normand

(Mabel)Ford Sterling

(The Villain)Raymond Hatton
Hank Mann

(Villain's accomplice)
And :
Helen Holmes
Al St. John
William Hauber
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