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Director
  
Mack Sennett

Producer
  
Mack Sennett

Country
  
United States

6.2/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Release date
  
June 3, 1913 (1913-06-03)

Genres
  
Silent film, Short Film, Comedy, Slapstick, Black-and-white, Indie film

Cast
  
Mabel Normand
(Mabel),
Mack Sennett
(Mabel's Boyfriend),
Ford Sterling
(The Villain),
Barney Oldfield
(Barney Oldfield)

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barney oldfield s race for a life 1913 director mack sennett


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.

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Plot

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

Cast

  • Mabel Normand - The Girl
  • Mack Sennett - The Boy
  • Ford Sterling - The Jealous Villain
  • Hank Mann - Villain's accomplice
  • Barney Oldfield - Himself, a racing driver
  • Al St. John - another accomplice of the Villain
  • Helen Holmes - Beauty, talking to Oldfield at Picket Fence
  • William Hauber - ?
  • The Keystone Cops

    • References

    Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Barney Oldfields Race for a Life IMDb Barney Oldfields Race for a Life themoviedb.org