Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
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.[1]
| Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life | |
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| Directed by | Mack Sennett |
| Produced by | Mack Sennett |
| Starring | Mack Sennett Mabel Normand Ford Sterling Barney Oldfield The Keystone Cops |
| Cinematography | Lee Bartholomew Walter Wright |
| Distributed by | Keystone Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 13 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
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
- King, Rob (December 10, 2008). The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520255388 – via Google Books.
External links
- Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life at IMDb
- Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life at AllMovie
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