Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life
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	June 3, 1913;
Running time	13 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film; English intertitles

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]

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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[1] 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.

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