''Station Content'' is a 1918 American silent

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directed by

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and starring

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. The original, five reel feature is presumed to be lost, but a one reel abridgment created in 1926 does survive and has been released on video.

Plot

As described in a

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, when Jim Manning (Hill) is rebuked by his wife Kitty (Swanson) for failure to secure a promotion that will take them away from Cybar, an isolated spot, he replies in kind, and the strained relations lead to Kitty running away with a musical comedy company. She meets Stephen Morton, president of the railroad, who becomes fascinated with her. He wishes to free himself from his wife and marry her, and Kitty promises an answer within a month. While returning to the city, she is held overnight at a small railroad station and memories fill her with remorse. She learns that lightning has destroyed a bridge on the train line, and after a wild ride on a gasoline handcar is able to save the limited. Morton and her husband Jim are both on the train, and a reconciliation between the couple is effected.

Cast

as Kitty Manning * Lee Hill as Jim Manning *

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as Stephen Morton * Nellie Allen as Mrs. Morton * Ward Caulfield as Theatrical manager * May Walters as Mrs. Rothfield *

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as Kitty's Baby (uncredited)

Reception

Like many American films of the time, ''Station Content'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 4, of the intertitle "My proposition is square. I want real companionship." The film was released in

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beginning in October 1918, using both its original title and the alternative title ''The Runaway Wife''.

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*{{IMDb title, 0009651 1918 films 1918 drama films Silent American drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Arthur Hoyt Triangle Film Corporation films Lost American drama films 1918 lost films English-language drama films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films