Station Content
About Station Content
Kitty Manning wants her husband Jim promoted out of Cybar, a lonely railroad post. After a quarrel she leaves with a musical-comedy company. Stephen Morton, president of the railroad and already married, asks her to live with him and gives her a month to answer. Held overnight at a small station on the way back to the city, she learns lightning has wrecked a bridge. She races a gasoline handcar down the line and stops the limited. Jim and Morton are both on the train. The Mannings reconcile.
Cast & crew
More about Station Content
Arthur Hoyt directed Gloria Swanson in a Triangle drama written by Catherine Carr. Silent Era also credits Charles J. Wilson with the scenario. Elgin Leslie was the cinematographer. Triangle released the five-reel feature on 16 June 1918.
Themes
Background
City and state boards still cut American features title by title in 1918. Chicago's objection was to Morton's proposition, not to the train wreck.
Look
Elgin Leslie photographed the five-reel Triangle production, including the station and the handcar run.
Preservation
The original five-reel feature is presumed lost. A one-reel abridgement made in 1926 survives and has been released on video. Silent Era notes an abridged 9.5mm reduction positive.
Notes
- Lee Hill plays Jim Manning, Arthur Millett plays Stephen Morton, Nellie Allen his wife, Ward Caulfield a theatrical manager, and May Walters Mrs. Rothfield. Fay McKenzie appears as Kitty's baby.
- On 10 August 1918 the Chicago Board of Censors ordered a cut, in reel 4, of the title 'My proposition is square. I want real companionship.'
- New Zealand showings from October 1918 used both Station Content and the title The Runaway Wife.
Scenes
- Kitty rides a gasoline handcar ahead of the limited and stops the train before the broken bridge.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-station-content)
