At the Doors of Doom - Cast

At the Doors of Doom (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

At the Doors of Doom (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Jim Frayne, a young engineer in the employ of the city, and Mary Clews, the daughter of a telegraph magnate, have been sweethearts from schooldays, but Mary's father objects to the attachment and wishes Mary to wed Brockton Poole, a steel ...See moreJim Frayne, a young engineer in the employ of the city, and Mary Clews, the daughter of a telegraph magnate, have been sweethearts from schooldays, but Mary's father objects to the attachment and wishes Mary to wed Brockton Poole, a steel manufacturer, who is a bidder for the steel contract of the huge Skull canon steel siphon. Through bribery of the city engineer, Frank Green, and the friendship of Mary's father, who is on the board to let the contract, Poole wins. He and Green ship underweight siphons where they are installed unwittingly by Jim, who is in charge of the construction. Mary's father dies, and Poole urges her to wed him in accordance with her father's wishes. Jim meanwhile suspects the underweight steel and has the acceptance held up. Mary breaks with Poole, and to renew her association with Jim, she secures the Skull canon telegraph Station, which she is fitted to hold. She and Jim, sweethearts again, use the great siphon as a telegraph cable, signaling their dispatches from one side of the canon where Mary is at work to Jim's headquarters on the other side. Jim, to ascertain if the siphon is defective, enters it at one of the sections in the valley. Poole, who has been summoned to the front by Green, sees a chance to kill Jim. They secure two iron workmen, ignorant of anyone's being in the siphon, and rivet Jim and two workmen inside the huge pipe. They rush to the reservoir that empties into the siphon and Green orders the water turned on. Jim is trapped with the water rising slowly when Mary raps their regular evening call. From inside the siphon Jim signals for help, and Mary rushes assistance to him just in time to save him. Poole and Green have returned to the city, confident that Jim has been removed from their path. Mary suspects who tried to drown Jim and stages a scene to disclose the guilty. It is successful and the plotters are revealed and fittingly dealt with. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Lee Shumway Jim Frayne - Civil Engineer (as Leon C. Shumway) Jim Frayne - Civil Engineer (as Leon C. Shumway) See fewer	Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
Velma Whitman Mary Clews - Jim's Sweetheart Mary Clews - Jim's Sweetheart See fewer	Some Boy (1917)
L.M. Wells John Clews - Mary's Father John Clews - Mary's Father See fewer	Graft (1915)
Jay Morley Frank Green - City Engineer (as J.A. Morley) Frank Green - City Engineer (as J.A. Morley) See fewer	The Little Boss (1919)
Melvin Mayo Brockton Poole - Steel Manufacturer Brockton Poole - Steel Manufacturer See fewer	The Death Warrant (1914)