The Spiked Switch (1916)
• June 3rd, 1916 • 0h 12min
Thriller
Overview
Trent returns to the throttle too soon after his recovery from illness. On the following day Ruth, his daughter, and Hume plan to elope. Trent, with a new fireman, is suddenly taken with a weak spell and when the fireman becomes panic-stricken there is a scuffle which ends with the fireman thrown to the ground while the fast freight speeds on.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
A Wild Ride
Released on: 1915-07-10
Thriller
The bad blood existing between Reardon and Haley results in a fight in which Reardon is worsted. Rea...
A Deed of Daring
Released on: 1915-07-17
Thriller
Upon learning that a gang of smugglers are using freight cars to bring Chinamen across the border, t...
The Girl on the Engine
Released on: 1915-07-24
Thriller
When informed by Helen that the rival railroad proposes to cross the Salt Lake's tracks, McKay, Divi...
The Fate of Number One
Released on: 1915-07-13
Thriller
Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who at...
The Midnight Limited
Released on: 1915-07-03
Thriller
Under the influence of liquor, Griffin foolishly displays a roll of bills. Wheeler and Walter, yeggm...
The Escape on the Limited
Released on: 1914-12-26
Thriller
Brandt, a defaulting cashier, hiding in Lone Point in his effort to throw detectives off his track, ...
The Broken Circuit
Released on: 1915-01-16
Thriller
Attempting to prevent an armed robbery in the paymaster's office, Helen is bound and gagged, and the...
Battling Brewster
Released on: 1924-12-01
Action, Thriller
An action movie serial that premiered in 1924
The Red Signal
Released on: 1915-02-13
Thriller
Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passin...
The Railroad Raiders of '62
Released on: 1915-03-20
Thriller
Lockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experienc...
A Life in the Balance
Released on: 1915-04-03
Thriller
King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lon...
The Girl Engineer
Released on: 1915-04-17
Thriller
A crooked mine owner attempts to hijack his rival's shipment of ore, but Helen foils his plot by jum...
A Race for a Crossing
Released on: 1915-04-24
Thriller
Sharky, a rival road agent, plots to spoil a trial run to be made on Helen's road that will win a ma...
The Box Car Trap
Released on: 1915-05-01
Thriller
Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brak...
The Human Chain
Released on: 1915-06-05
Thriller
Deering and his gang rifle the station safe and gain possession of some valuable gems; Helen seizes ...
The Engineer's Peril
Released on: 1915-02-20
Thriller
Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a ...
The Stolen Engine
Released on: 1914-12-05
Thriller
A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engi...
One Chance in a Hundred
Released on: 1916-05-20
Thriller
Billy Warren, timekeeper on the construction job, arouses the enmity of Brent and Easton when he res...
The Flying Freight's Captive
Released on: 1914-12-12
Thriller
Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discover...
The Black Diamond Express
Released on: 1914-12-19
Thriller
When Dick, an aeronaut is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Hel...