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Long lost, Mistaken Orders was yet another railroad melodrama featuring that veteran of the genre, the enterprising Helen Holmes, who this time was awarded a better-than-average leading man in lower echelon cowboy star Jack Perrin. Helen's husband, J.P. McGowan, again directed and probably also delivered the story, a Civil War drama in which an army officer (Henry Barrows) manages to infiltrate an enemy railroad company.