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The Rival Pilots (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

The Rival Pilots (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Jack Worth us the youngest engineer on the system and has the cleanest record. Margaret Mayburn, who has charge of one of the Harvey Houses, is admired by Jack, but she, having the care and support of an invalid mother and younger brothers...See moreJack Worth us the youngest engineer on the system and has the cleanest record. Margaret Mayburn, who has charge of one of the Harvey Houses, is admired by Jack, but she, having the care and support of an invalid mother and younger brothers, has put aside his proposal. Steve Burns, another engineer, is an admirer of the girl and he hates Worth. He learns of Jack's appointment with Margaret to take her for a ride in his Ford, and hurries to the house shortly after they leave. Dave, Margaret's young brother, tells Steve of his hatred for Jack and also of how he tampered with the machine so that it will not run far. Steve secure a rented machine and offers to take the boy with him for a ride, intending to overtake the disabled car and take Margaret away from Jack. When Jack's auto reaches the country both tires then blow out. Jack proposes to the girl and finally overrules her objections. She agrees to the marriage and they set an early date Steve has been unable to find the two and returns to work in an ugly humor. Next day Jack pulls his train into a siding at a junction station where all the railroad men are accustomed to eat dinner. Although it is strictly against the rules to leave a train without anyone in charge, the practice has become general and the train was stationary on the side track. The discharged fireman whom Steve has inveigled into helping him discredit Jack, starts the train running wild. The fireman sees the train starting out with no one in the cab and hurries to the lunch house. Jack, however, manages to stop the engine by racing after it on horseback. He is taken off the passenger run and assigned a freight run on a distant division. Having discredited Jack as an engineer, Steve now seeks to ruin him with the girl. This he does by means of a letter supposedly to Jack from a girl who claims that they are to be married. He gets this letter to Margaret through Dave. She breaks her engagement with Jack and marries Steve. Four years pass. Jack has again been given a passenger run and returns to his old run. Steve has become careless and takes to drink. The married life of Margaret and Steve is not very happy and the only bright spot is the presence of a little child which has been named Margaret. Jack has made the acquaintance of the child and taken a strange liking to her. One day Margaret finds him and the child together and confesses that she is the mother, and Steve her husband. Steve becomes violently angry at Jack because of the friendship between him and the child and orders Jack never to speak to her again. Returning home, he abuses his wife, accusing her of again seeking Jack out. One day as Jack is going to work he meets the little child, who is crying because her doll is broken. He promises to get her a new one and absently places the doll in his breast pocket. Steve broods over his supposed injuries and determines to kill Jack. He slips beside the track and as Jack's train is speeding on, deliberately aims at his heart and fires. Jack sinks down. The fireman rushes to his side. Jack is only stunned, the doll having saved his life. Steve, unable to find out why his shot was not fatal, determines to try the same trick the next day. The child has wandered away from the house and is playing on the track. Unable to get her to leave the track, the little girl in whose charge she is entrusted, hurries home to tell her mother. Jack and his fireman are talking when the fireman suddenly looks out and sees the child. With a quick word to his fireman, Jack hurries on to the pilot and rescues the child. Steve, in the act of shooting sees the rescue and hurries away. Margaret's brother, Dave, has returned home from school and is more of a man. Disgusted with Steve's brutality, he remembers the episode of the letter and determines to learn the truth of it. He corners Steve and makes him confess that he had persuaded another girl to write the letter. When Jack arrives at the station with the child he is warmly congratulated by all his friends. Margaret comes in for the child and realizes that Jack has always possessed her love. Steve, peering through the window, sees this in her face and realizing now how cowardly he has been, takes the best way out and shoots himself. Jack takes the widow and child under his care and there is a prospect that in the near future the child will have a good father. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Lee Hill Jack Worth Jack Worth See fewer	The Hawk and the Hermit (1915)
Lee Shumway Steve Burns (as Leon C. Shumway) Steve Burns (as Leon C. Shumway) See fewer	Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
Mina Cunard Margaret Mayburn (as Margaret Mayburn) Margaret Mayburn (as Margaret Mayburn) See fewer	The Broken Coin (1915)
Marion Emmons Dave Mayburn (as Buster Emmons) Dave Mayburn (as Buster Emmons) See fewer	Indian Blood (1914)
Edwin Wallock The Superintendent (as E.N. Wallack) The Superintendent (as E.N. Wallack) See fewer	Tammany's Tiger (1916)