A young girl, with the aid of a sagacious monk, saves a baby heiress from the evil designs of two villainous kidnappers, and smuggles the infant to New York aboard a freight train, to secure the fortune..

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" ::selection{background:#EAB308;color:#000}h2{color:#C2410C;letter-spacing:.05em;margin-top:2.5rem}h3{color:#0E7490;margin-top:2rem}a{color:#EAB308;text-decoration:underline}a:hover{color:#C2410C} The Odyssey on Steel Wheels Picture a nickelodeon flickering like a dying candle in 1916: audiences gasp as a mere slip of a girl—played by the incandescent Ida Mae McKenzie—vaults across coal piles, her shadow lengthening into myth. The plot, deceptively simple, becomes a kaleidoscope once you peer t..."

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