A Dash of Courage is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Charley Chase, starring Gloria Swanson,[1] and featuring Wallace Beery, to whom she was briefly married.

[2][3] A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner.

Woodward suspicious after a long wait, again telephones to the station and is answered by the real police, who have revived.

A combination of thrills and laughs brings the picture to a close.Louis Reeves Harrison's review in The Moving Picture World (1916) said that Harry Gribbon's performance offered "much that is new in characterization and in his personality, and his support is active enough to make the little play move with snap from start to finish".

Kennedy praised the actor's performances, highlighting Gribbon's leading role saying, he "wins the acting honors".