 The Governor 's Daughter is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The story details a convict who is being sent to prison when the train is wrecked and the sheriff escorting him is killed . The convict frees himself , but halts his escape to save the life of a little girl . As he returns the girl to her nurse , a policeman identifies and recaptures him . Later the little girl accompanies her father , the governor , on a tour of the prison and the father pardons the hero @-@ convict . The film included scenes of a real train wreck and the scenario was written around the filming of the disaster . The film received praise for the before and after scenes which were described as shocking to The Moving Picture World 's reviewer . The film was released on June 24 , 1910 , and was shown as far away as Australia . The film is presumed lost . 
