Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life (1913)
Genres: Comedy, Short, Silent
Cast: Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Barney Oldfield
Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is a 1913 silent comedy short, directed and produced by Mack Sennett and starring Sennett, Mabel Normand, and Barney Oldfield as himself. It is considered one of the earliest to include the plot of a villain tying a young damsel to the tracks of an oncoming locomotive; a holdover from the Gaslight era of Victorian stage melodrama.