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The Prisoner’s Story
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Gaston Méliès and/or Robert Goodman?
Cast: Ray Gallagher [Ross Cameron], Mildren Bracken [Grace Haywood], Evelyn Selbie [Nell Cameron], William Stanton [Allan Webb], [?] Francis Ford?
G. Méliès production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 19 September 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [From Méliès promotional materials] Grace discovers her lover Ross embracing a strange woman. A man is lying dead on the floor. Jealous, she gives the alarm and Ross is apprehended and about to be lynched when Grace is remorseful and pleads with the cowboys to listen to a possible explanation. He then unfolds the sad story of how his sister sold herself in marriage to a gambler to save him, how, after many years, he found them at the deserted ranch, his sister dead, and how he shot the gambler in self defence. The cowboys are touched by the story and the lovers reunited. // [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Grace and her lover, Graham, being caught in the rain while riding, Graham begs her wait beneath a tree while he searches for a place of shelter. When, however, he does not return in due time she becomes alarmed and follows the path he took. Peering in the window of a house she discovers a man dead and her lover embracing a prostrate woman. Her conclusions are that her lover has committed murder, and in a fit of jealousy, she informs the authorities. Graham is captured and about to be lynched when remorse fills the heart of Grace. Perhaps he has some explanation. She pleads with the lynchers and obtains a hearing for her lover. Graham explains that the woman he embraced was his sister; that he had arrived at the hut just after she had been choked to death by her husband, a gambler, who had forced her to marry him to pay a gambling debt of Graham’s; that in a conflict that followed between himself and the gambler-husband, the latter was killed. The lynchers are convinced by this story and Grace reconciled.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 25 May 2024.
References: Thompson-Star p. 232 : ClasIm-226 p. 55 : Website-IMDb.
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