Watch Barney Oldfield's Race For A Life (1913) Free Online

Release Date: 1913   Duration: 13 min

Cast: Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Barney Oldfield

Categories: Movies, Silent film, Indie film, Chase Movie, Comedy film, Black-and-white, Short Film, Slapstick

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life is a 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 create the common archetypal silent film plot of a villain tying a young damsel to the tracks of an oncoming locomotive.