Vanguardism in the Short Silents
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- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorWalt DisneyStarsWalt DisneyCarl W. StallingThe clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.
- DirectorLen LyeWith the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into chains of cells then more complex images from tribal cultures and contemporary modernist concepts. The images react, interpenetrate, perhaps attack, absorb and separate, until a final symbiosis (or redemption?) is achieved.
- DirectorDimitri KirsanoffStarsNadia SibirskaïaA woman--a pained expression on her face--burns letters in a stove.
- DirectorJean PainlevéPopular science descriptions of two marine crustaceans, both of whom camouflage themselves in found objects, moving, eating, interacting.
- DirectorJosé MedinaStarsÁurea de AremarCarlos FerreiraJosé Medina FilhoIn a building site, a worker agonizes, after an accident, and tells his son about the virtues of honest work, but he's not heard. Turned into a vagabond and having mean people as company, the youth decides to get arrested in order to find a solace against winter. When he finally decides to follow his father advice and get himself a job, he falls under the influence of a policeman, under the false accusation of robbery.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseAndré de la RivièreRobert DesnosTwo people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, "Adieu." Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in a jar, city scenes, newspapers, tugboats. More images: starfish, the girl. "How beautiful she is." Repeatedly. He advances up the stair, knife in hand, starfish on the step. Three people stand on a road, out of focus. "How beautiful she was." "How beautiful she is." "Beautiful."
- DirectorJean RenoirJean TédescoStarsCatherine HesslingEric BarclayJean StormAn impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
- DirectorRobert FloreySlavko VorkapichStarsJules RaucourtVoya GeorgeRobert FloreyA wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
- DirectorHans RichterStarsWerner GraeffWalter GronostayPaul HindemithHans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
- DirectorEdmund LawrenceStarsHelen HayesClarence NordstromAda May
- DirectorErnö MetznerStarsHeinrich GothoEva Schmid-KayserSybille SchmitzA coin found on the street turns out to be unlucky for those who attempt to possess it.
- DirectorCharles KleinLeon ShamroyStarsOtto MatiesonWilliam HerfordHans FuerbergAn expressionistic film based on Poe's story, about a murderer and his mental breakdown.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsAlex AllinLucien BatailleGenica AthanasiouObsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsJoseph MarievskyTamara ShavrovaAnielka ElterWhile playing his trombone one Sunday, the enthusiastic Zero sees Beatrix and falls in love. He returns the next week to express his feelings, and it's mutual. Over the next few months, they spoon, kiss, and find happiness. Then, she receives a letter from Kabul, demanding that she return to the palace of the grand vizier. The lovers part, heartbroken. Zero tries expressing himself to a woman on the street. He meets derision. Then, news of Beatrix. Does this romance end in smiles or tears?
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsNina Star
- DirectorJames Sibley WatsonMelville WebberStarsHerbert SternHildegarde WatsonMelville WebberAn avant-garde take on Poe's classic story of a traveller taking shelter at a household under a mysterious curse.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseJacques RigautA long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. She descends from the car, again and again. Images: dancing legs, seashore, swimming fish, geometric shapes, cut glass. A man removes his starched collar. It rotates. A girl has garishly painted eyes. No, she's only fooling. Those were her eyelids.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelAgnes AyresForrest StanleyA young wife is contacted by a former boyfriend, who informs her that he has a collection of her love letters that he will turn over to her husband unless the woman pays him off. She and her butler hatch a plan to get the letters from the blackmailer before her husband sees them.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsRaymond DubreuilEmma GyntRobert MirfeuilTired of being ignored by her husband, a young woman heads off to a nautical-themed nightclub, frequented by rowdy sailors. Her attentions is caught by a handsome naval officer.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsCatherine HesslingJohnny HudginsPierre BraunbergerShot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
- DirectorDimitri KirsanoffStarsNadia SibirskaïaYolande BeaulieuGuy BelmontA couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsLloyd HamiltonMarcella DalyDick SutherlandA bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
- DirectorMarcel DuchampA spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
- DirectorJosé A. FerreyraStarsAlvaro Escobar
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsPyotr SobolevskySergey GerasimovLyudmila SemyonovaA sailor meets a girl on a roller coaster at a funfair. They are both very late, but still decide to ride one final attraction called "The Devil's Wheel". Spin of the wheel changes their life entirely.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsCharles MartinelliLouis Pré FilsAlbert PréjeanA scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.
- DirectorRobert P. KerrStarsEarle FoxeFlorence GilbertFrank BealVan Bibber, wealthy fashion plate traveling with friends in Russia, is called upon to save a Russian dancer from the attentions of a famous wrestler, both of whom are fellow passengers on the train. He reluctantly goes to the task and with the aid of the lurching of the train succeeds in throwing the wrestler, which brings him fame and the unwanted devotion of the dancer. The jealous Duke, who loves Sylvia, Van's sweetheart, arranges another meeting with Strangler Stransky and Van's doom seems sealed, but by the weirdest breaks of good luck and terrible wrestling technique he manages to win.
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean Cocteau
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsNina StarA partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not made to be captive but free. In return for its freedom, the nightingale loans the child its voice for use in the daytime, which is why nightingales only sing at night.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleGrover JonesStarsAl St. JohnGeorge DavisGlen CavenderIn 1830, a train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. The engineer is prepared for most of them, but the real challenges come when the train is ambushed by Indians.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsClyde CookFay HoldernessNoah YoungA Wrestler and his ex-Wife (Noah Young and Fay Holderness) try to con a recently-discharged Sailor (Clyde Cook) out of 4 years' pay. When they learn that he lost the money in a 'shell game', they put him to work in the hazardous job of a High Steel Worker, and insure him against accident, then try to see that he has one.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsJean BörlinInge FrïssFrancis PicabiaAn absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
- DirectorFernand LégerDudley MurphyStarsKiki of MontparnasseFernand LégerDudley MurphyA pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, kitchen objects in concentric circles or rows - pots, pan lids, and funnels, cars passing overhead, a spinning carnival ride. Over and over, a heavy-set woman climbs stairs carrying a large bag on her shoulder. An Art Deco cartoon figure appears, dancing. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsNina Star
- DirectorBuntarô FutagawaStarsTsumasaburô BandôKôzaburô KataokaKanzaburô ArashiThe story of a nihilistic samurai whose mother is killed, whose sister is used and deceived, and who loses the only love of his life.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsBaby PeggyBert SterlingJack EarleA child plays in the woods next to an isolated cabin. An exhausted Mountie faints by the cabin, and the child helps him inside to the bed. She gives him a spoonful of liniment and rubs Castor oil on his face. He awakes and tells her he's been chasing moonshiners. She vows to capture them, dons her Mountie mascot uniform, and sets out in pursuit. She gets the draw on three of them, but a fourth grabs her. She continues to follow them past Moonshine River to the moonshiners' hideout. She loses her uniform and is lassoed by the ringleader. A Mountie should always get her man, but is she resourceful enough to turn this into an opportunity?
- DirectorAdrian BrunelStarsAdrian BrunelT.L. RichVivian Van DammA spoof travelogue of an expedition by three explorers, confusing London and New York with Papua, sending up film effects, censorship and a profusion of other cinema-related targets.
- DirectorHampton Del RuthStarsArthur StoneOlive BordenKatherine GrantA pawn-shop employee who looks like a robot must substitute for it after it becomes damaged.
- DirectorRoy ClementsStarsWill RogersMarie MosquiniCharlie HallThis one starts with Will coming out presumably before a Follies audience and telling them that he has brought back from Hollywood some "big moments" from well known films for their enjoyment. Accordingly, a screen is dropped and scenes from "Blood and Sand," "Robin Hood" and finally the old "Keystone Cops" are shown with Rogers, of course, in the leading roles. Of course, the action is all burlesqued and many laughs afforded.
- DirectorAlbert AustinClyde CookStarsClyde CookBlanche PaysonJoe RobertsA timid man goes to extreme lengths to get away from his domineering wife.
- DirectorViking EggelingA tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsLouise LaraAntonin ArtaudPaul BarthetA story of a love trio, an adultery, an expression of jealousy and the desire to murder without the help of titles, by the combination of images, their associations, editing, tricks, overprints, idling, and acceleration.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsGermaine DermozMadeleine GuittyJean d'YdAn unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseExperimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
- DirectorScott SidneyStarsNeal BurnsCharlotte MerriamBabe LondonYoung Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.
- DirectorGeorge RidgwellStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisFrank GoldsmithA gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsBaby PeggyLillian HackettInez McDonnellA spoof of Bizet's Carmen. Somewhere in Spain, a young girl gets the better of the neighborhood boys, then, dressed as a fashionable senorita, visits a club where a boy is demonstrating a tango. She joins him to the enjoyment of the spectators. In act 2, she's dressed as a matador and presents herself at the arena to General della Bambinodi Carradavadoves, a man who knows bulls. She fights one and finds that her sword isn't strong enough to stab him. In the excitement, the General falls from the stands, and he and the child must face the brute. Is there an escape?
- DirectorGeorge RidgwellStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisJoseph R. TozerAn unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThe frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.
- DirectorGeorge RidgwellStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisHal MartinWhen William McCarthy is found dead, the son with whom he had just quarreled is charged with murder.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelAgnes AyresForrest StanleyA young wife is contacted by a former boyfriend, who informs her that he has a collection of her love letters that he will turn over to her husband unless the woman pays him off. She and her butler hatch a plan to get the letters from the blackmailer before her husband sees them.
- DirectorJohn CapstaffStarsMary EatonHope HamptonMae MurrayExperimental film done by Eastman Kodak to test the abilities of Kodachrome film stock.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsHope HamptonE.K. LincolnLon ChaneyPoor Bessie MacGregor is struck by the automobile of wealthy Mrs. Templeton Orrin and is taken home to live with her. But Bessie leaves when Mrs. Orrin's brother, J. Warburton Ashe, trifles with her love. Thief Tony Pantelli befriends her in the tenement where she finds a room, tries to obtain money for her care from Ashe, and, failing, steals a goblet that Ashe has brought home from England, thinking it may be the Holy Grail. The goblet, which gives off a glow and is reputed to have healing powers, is recovered, stolen again, again recovered and stolen, and finally lost in a river. Meanwhile, Ashe exonerates Tony in night court, realizes he really loves Bessie, now cured, and is reunited with her.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorJacques LasseyneMusidoraJosé Sobrado de OnegaStarsAntonio CañeroSimone CynthiaMusidoraA famous bullfighter falls in love with the maid of a hostel and also with a foreigner woman who visits Spain and who will provoke the servant's jealousy. Musidora, the most mythical vampire and muse of surrealism, co-directs and plays the two protagonists roles of this film.
- DirectorGeorge RidgwellStarsEille NorwoodTeddy ArundellHubert WillisInspector Lestrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been inexplicably breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of breaking small busts of Napoleon.
- DirectorPhilip CarleStarsHuntley GordonMary AstorBradley BarkerThere is a fight over disputed forest land and eventually a battle between two gangs of workmen.
- DirectorPhilip CarleStarsHuntley GordonMary AstorCharles SlatteryA man, unable to curb his violent temper, sequesters himself in the forest. A tame bear comes to his shack and he adopts it, and finally realizes the futility of his terrific outbursts and learns to hold himself in check.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsGeorges BiscotÉdouard MathéJeanne RolletteMost delirious vaudeville of the series "Great Mood" as a result of various circumstances, the respectable Seraphin is found without pants in the middle of the street.
- DirectorHenri Diamant-BergerStarsAimé Simon-GirardHenri RollanCharles MartinelliD'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
- DirectorHugh FordStarsMary GlynneMarjorie HumeJack HobbsA poor girl refuses to wed a millionaire when he sends her sick sweetheart to Africa.
- DirectorLouis DellucStarsÈve FrancisEdmond Van DaëleGaston ModotTopinelli, who runs a bar in a harbor in Marseille with his wife Sarah, begin to quarrel in conflict when a sailor, who turns out to be a past lover of Sarah, dances with her on arrival to the bar.
- DirectorCharles SheelerPaul StrandThis groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors.
- DirectorEdgar JonesStarsEdgar JonesEdna May SperlCarlton BrickertThe story of a lumberjack whose love for a girl is apparently returned until she meets a young man from the city with whom she falls really in love. After saving her life, the lumberjack generously gives her up to the boy.
- DirectorMarcel L'HerbierStarsGabriel SignoretÈve FrancisMarcelle PradotFrom a Futurist play the director had staged, this update of Greek tragedy features a modern banker chained to his desk as punishment for having stolen gold.
- DirectorEdgar JonesStarsEdgar JonesEdna May SperlCarlton BrickertThe doctor is in love with the girl and, as her father's consent and presence is required, this is obtained by sending the old man across the stream on a rope railway, but not allowing him to land before he gives his consent to the wedding which is all planted on the opposite shore.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerA hand drawn clown begins interrupting an animator's attempt to draw which in turn leads to the animator spending all his efforts on trying to trap the clown.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisRobert VallisHolmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.
- DirectorGrace CunardStarsGrace CunardCole HebertGordon GriffithA city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisJoan BeverleyHolmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannAgainst a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others rounded. The abstract shapes move into or across the screen in harmony with the musical score.
- DirectorEugenio TestaStarsLinda AlbertiniLuciano AlbertiniUmberto GuarracinoThe Italian adaptation of the famous novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his monstrous creation.
- DirectorLouis DellucStarsGabriel SignoretÈve FrancisGinette DarnysThe tragedy of a man, about to kill himself, who contemplates his past in a series of flashbacks.
- DirectorJay HuntStarsTexas GuinanPat HartiganHal FernerA young woman and her brothers go up against a gang of moonshiners.
- DirectorJ. Charles HaydonStarsSheldon LewisAlex ShannonDora Mills AdamsDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- DirectorJay HuntStarsTexas GuinanPat HartiganA young woman rejects the advances of a Mexican bandit. He kidnaps her sister, saying he will keep her until the woman changes her mind. She leads a posse to rescue her sister.
- DirectorEdgar JonesStarsEdgar JonesEvelyn BrentBen Hendricks Jr.A Mountie searching for known moonshiners falls in love with the sister of a man associated with them.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsLouise FazendaFord SterlingPhyllis HaverWhen a hotel orchestra leader starts to flirt with a girl in the audience, her fiancé is very displeased. Then the orchestra leader finds out that the hotel flower girl is really a rich heiress, and he shifts his attentions to her. Now the flower girl's boyfriend is unhappy, and soon there are even more complications.
- DirectorCharles MillerThomas H. InceStarsDorothy DaltonRobert McKimCharles GunnA young novelist is so filled with ambition that he neglects his wife. He's planning to write about infidelity in his new novel and she decides to show him what it's like in great detail.
- DirectorLuis PeredoStarsElena Sánchez ValenzuelaAlfonso BussonRicardo BeltriThe first version of Gamboa's novel about an innocent young girl who is betrayed by the man she loves and must become a prostitute after her family rejects her.
- DirectorWinsor McCayStarsWinsor McCayAn animated dramatization of the notorious World War I German torpedoing of the ocean liner, Lusitania.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsLeonhard HaskelJohanna TerwinNelly GuttmannMax Thomas and his wife Henriette are constantly in dispute. The barrel overflows when Max finds out that his wife is cheating on him with another man. He then throws Henriette out of his four walls. But she is not willing to accept her expulsion and takes revenge on Max, in which she questions his paternity over the couple's son.
- DirectorAl ChristieStarsDorothy DevoreEarle RodneyLeota LorraineRather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."
- DirectorEdmund MortimerPaul PowellStarsCarmel MyersRudolph ValentinoLydia Yeamans TitusA wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsMatt MooreJane GailWhile riding in his mistress' automobile one day, a pet dog who is his mistress' greatest treasure, is attracted by the sight of a cat and jumps from the auto to chase the feline. During the pursuit, the collie is lost and tormented by two small boys, who tie a tin can to his tail and chase him. Later he is rescued by a ragged boy whose home is anyplace where he can lay his head. Upon restoring the dog to his mistress the boy is rewarded with a good home.
- DirectorTom MixStarsTom MixSid JordanVictoria Forde
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsEmma BauerTasya BormanN. DennitsynaSince Zoya Verenskaya's husband passed away ten years ago, she has been devoted to her daughter Lee. At present, Lee is in poor health, and she is in danger of losing her eyesight. Zoya's suitor Dmitry wants to get married, but Zoya is determined to wait until Lee is better. Then, on a vacation in the Crimea, they learn Lee's true feelings for Dmitry, and suddenly all of their lives are thrown into turmoil.
- DirectorSegundo de ChomónGiovanni PastroneStarsRomilde ToschiAlberto NepotiEnrico GemelliAn old man explains a war story to his grandson, who sleeps and dreams about a battle scenes performed by puppets.
- DirectorFebo MariArturo AmbrosioStarsEleonora DuseFebo MariNietta MordegliaSet in Sardinia, a barren and disconsolate land, where Rosalia, a poor young mother, entrusts her only son, Anania, to the natural father, who is well-off and already married. The years pass. Rosalia ages in misery, Anania becomes an adult and is about to marry. He returns to the country in order to find his mother and invite her to the wedding, but his fiancée does not appreciate this. Rosalia is abandoned once again...
- DirectorHenry KingStarsHenry KingLillian WestPhilo McCullough
- DirectorE. Magnus IngletonLeslie T. PeacockeStarsClaire McDowellT.D. CrittendenLeo PiersonDeath reviews the life of a mean, miserly old woman.
- DirectorVictor BergdahlStarsVictor BergdahlA short film in which an animator must subdue his escaped creation.
- DirectorGeorg af KlerckerStarsSybil SmolovaCarl BarcklindArtur RolénElinor Petipon has been arrested suspected of the murder of her husband. However, she seems to have lost memory, and confronted with the husband's body, she does not even recognize him.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsOssi OswaldaEmil JanningsMargarete KupferA young woman leaves the convent to go home and live with her father. Then she falls in love with a librarian, but her father doesn't approve.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn FordJean HathawayPeter GeraldAll the men in the neighborhood love Bess, the daughter of the Mayor of Rockville, but she treats them coldly. Among this number is Jack Dayton, a son of Old Ireland known as the "No-Gun-Man" and Lesparre, leader of the Coyote gang. Lesparre brings his gang to town, holds up the bartender, secures all the whiskey they want, then robs the bank belonging to the Mayor, who offers $5,000 reward for the return of the stolen property. Jack's great desire is to get enough money to send to his mother in Ireland, to pay for the cottage in which she lives; so he starts after the bandits unarmed, although he is urged to take a gun. In the meantime, Lesparre has also kidnapped Bess and taken her to a place in the hills known as Coyote Hole. When Jack learns of this, he redoubles his efforts. He allows himself to be captured by the bandits, and on being taken before the chief, tells him he wishes to join the gang, and the chief finally consents. As soon as everyone is asleep, Jack enters the room in which Bess is imprisoned, and helps her to escape. He then wraps his blanket about him again and goes to sleep. In the morning the loss of the girl is discovered and Jack is suspected, and is locked in the room in which Bess was imprisoned. He finds the money and papers hidden in the bed, watches his chance, attacks the two men who are guarding him, defeats them after a desperate fight and escapes with the money. He reaches the railroad and climbs on a passing freight train. The gang follows closely, and after a fight, Jack throws Lesparre off the train, He finally reaches Rock River, is acclaimed a hero, returns the money and papers to the Mayor, and receives the girl in exchange.
- DirectorJohn EmersonStarsDouglas FairbanksBessie LoveAllan SearsA bumbling detective comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress when a drug smuggler wants to force her to marry him.