Mack SennettCast
Mabel Normand 
Ford Sterling Barney Oldfield
Plot
A villain ties a heroine to the railway tracks, and her hero chases the train in a racing car driven by the famous driver Barney Oldfield. A parody of melodrama.
Sinekatalog’s take
Mack Sennett's 1913 short has a villain tie Mabel Normand to the tracks while a racing driver chases the train. Fast, silly and parodic, it is a lively early Keystone burlesque of melodrama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.0 / 10 (452 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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