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December, 1924
PICTURED LIFE FOR HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY
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THE IRON HORSE
HERE is a film acclaimed as great, but which lacks so much in finish, that we could wish that five years instead of only three had been used in its production. There is so evident an attempt to create
crazy about engines, wanted to know how the one engine could rush eastward for re-inforcements and then return headed west when there was no turn-table and no time to use it, anyway. Oh, these children !
The best acting is in the pro
The Return of the Rescue Train, in "THE IRON HORSE"
atmosphere that part of the action is almost burlesque. Villains are crude, comedy is cumbersome ; and to cap the climax there are young women of free ways who rush from a dance-hall to a dirty freight train, ride miles to help rescue a track crew from the Indians, take part in a lengthy rifle battle, succor the bleeding casualties, ride back on the same dirty train, and emerge from the adventure with hair unruffled and hoopskirts as neat, apparently, as when first worn.
Twelve-year-old Thomas said he would have liked the show better if the Indian scouts coming to the rescue in the summer time had not ridden pell-mell through snowfields to repel attackers. Even sister Martha noticed that the long shots of the cattle-drive crossing a river showed every one of the animals wading safely from bank to bank, while the close-ups showed steers desperately swimming out of their depth. Six-year-old Henry, who is
logue, by little Winston Miller who, as the boy "Davy," sees his father killed by Indians, buries him alone and weeps over the grave until found and taken away by pioneer
scouts. The work of this little actor is so sincere and so whole-hearted that the sad scene is all too poignant for highly-strung children.
The murdered father had been a surveyor, a friend of Lincoln's back in Springfield, 111. He had visions of a railroad across the continent and he had started on the westward trail with his 10-year-old son and a few belongings. They had left behind at home Thomas Marsh, a contractor, and his small daughter Miriam who was to await little Davy's return.
Davy Brandon grew to lusty young manhood and was instrumental in foiling the grafting crooks who would have delayed or prevented the successful building of the Union Pacific. Thomas Marsh came west as the contractor who built the road out from Omaha. His daughter came too, and, of course, her fiance, the chief engineer, was a villain and a coward so that Miriam did quite right in forgetting him and joining forces with the grown-up Davy just as soon as the railroad was joined with the Central Pacific and the "golden spike" driven to mark the completion of the first transcontinental line.
The epic features of the struggle with money stringency, engineering difficulties, labor troubles, food
When the Railway Builders Met, in "THE IRON HORSE"