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  • A Race with Death (1914)
  • Short | 27 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
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A Race with Death (1914)
Short | 27 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
The child of an automobile mechanic is stricken with a malady which may require an immediate operation. The attending physician instructs the mechanic and his wife to notify him at once in case complications set in. A big automobile race, ...See moreThe child of an automobile mechanic is stricken with a malady which may require an immediate operation. The attending physician instructs the mechanic and his wife to notify him at once in case complications set in. A big automobile race, for a prize of $1,000, is to be held the following week. The mechanic is to accompany the driver of racing car No. 10. The race course stretches between the small town in which the mechanic lives and Los Angeles, fifty miles distant. The mechanic is on hand the morning of the race. The mechanic's wife comes with the announcement that their child is worse. Together they hurry to the physician's house, only to find that he has been called to a hospital in Los Angeles. Back at the race course the time for starting has almost arrived and the driver of No. 10 is frantic because he cannot find his mechanic. The signal for start is given and the racers begin. An instant later, the mechanic and his wife, carrying the sick child, run up, get into No. 10 and speed away towards Los Angeles and the doctor. No. 10 is the last to start, but the nerve of a father fighting for the life of his child is of steel. Without giving a thought to the fact that his car is in the race, car No. 10 speeds past one car after another and passes the judges' stand at the finish well ahead of all the other contestants. The mechanic drives straight to the hospital. A check for $2,000, the first prize in the big road race, is later handed therein. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Robert Z. Leonard
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Updated Feb 5, 1914
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Feb 5, 1914 (United States)

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