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Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is a 1913 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]
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| 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
A lady, 'Mabel Sweet and Lovely' is courted by a gentleman, 'A Bashful Suitor'. He offers her a corsage which she accepts. They coyly share a kiss. After the Suitor leaves, the Villain appears and grabs the lady. She hits him and escapes. This angers the Villain and he vows to get his way. At the next opportunity, the Villain once again kidnaps the lady, this time with the help of two henchmen, and chains her to the railway tracks.
The three villains travel by handcar to the station, where they assault two workers and steal a locomotive engine. The villains drive the train back towards the location of Mabel who is still tied to the tracks.
![Barney Oldfield's A Race for a Life [1913] with left to right:Hank Mann; Ford Sterling; Al St John and in foreground Mabel Normand](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Barney_Oldfield%27s_Race_for_a_Life.jpg)
The railyard worker alerts the Suitor about the situation, who then rushes to ask his friend, racecar driver, Barney Oldfield for help.
The two friends jump in the automobile and race the speeding hijacked locomotive to rescue the damsel in distress. Mabel is dramatically saved at the last moment and is carried away to safety. The foiled villain kills his accomplice and shoots five Keystone cops arriving by handcar to arrest him. Finally he turns the gun on himself but upon discovering the bullet chamber empty, he drops dead in a rage.
Cast
- Mabel Normand - Mabel Sweet And Lovely
- Mack Sennett - Bashful Suitor
- Ford Sterling - Villainous Rival
- 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 - Villager
- 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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- [en] Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
[ru] Барни Олдфилд мчится, спасая жизнь
«Барни Олдфилд мчится, спасая жизнь» (англ. Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life) — американский короткометражный комедийный фильм Мака Сеннета[1].Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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