The Perils of Pauline (Dir. Louis J. Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie) starring Pearl White, Crane Wilbur, and Paul Panzer, may be watched online or downloaded by clicking here.
Summary: Pauline (Pearl White),
a dreamy young waif who wants to write novels, is all set to inherit
millions from her loving guardian, Mr. Marvin (Crane Wilbur), but
Marvin's secretary, Mr. Koerner (Paul Panzer), has different ideas. He
wants to keep the money for himself.
A popular 1914 series of 20
two-reelers, shown in weekly installments, the Perils of Pauline
pitted a damsel in distress against a wide variety of perfidious
villains hellbent on sending her through sawmills or tying her to
railroad tracks.
A former bare-back rider for the circus, Pearl White did all her own stunts -- some of them very dangerous.
Can't get enough of women being tied like a sack of potatoes to railroad tracks? The audience couldn't. They bought so many tickets that Pearl White suddenly found herself cast in a very similar series of cliffhanger: The Exploits of Elaine (1914) and the New Exploits of Elaine (1915).
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