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The Sheriff’s Sweetheart
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Frank Beal
Cast: Margarita Fischer, Harry A. Pollard
American Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Released 27 February 1911; in a split-reel with The Silence System (1911). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
[?] Drama: Western?
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Out in the desolate desert towns of New Mexico, there is many an honorable citizen whose life is haunted by a rash deed of youth or early manhood. Some deed that made him a fugitive from his native heath and drove him into the frontier wilderness of the far West. Even there, sometimes the law ferrets him out and drives him further and further from civilization with never a chance of reparation. So it was with Dad Boulter, the much loved old justice of Crazy Gulch. For years he has lived there with his daughter, the pride of the gulch, and then one day there came to him a letter from the East, warning him that the next mail would carry a letter appraising the community of his folly. Disgrace and ruin were approaching the little western home, so acting upon an impulse of self-preservation, the old justice buckled on his pistol and rode to the outskirts of the town, held up the stage and confiscated the mail bag. The fatal letter was destroyed and the justice fled before the pursuit of the young sheriff and his posse. It happened that the sheriff was betrothed to Nell, the daughter of the justice, and the strong struggle between love and duty, when he realized who his fugitive was, makes an intense dramatic situation. The justice was wounded in the chase and staggering into his hut, he bade his daughter bind his wound and hide him from the posse. The loyal girl hid her father under a bundle of clothing and admitted the sheriff. Her ruse was a failure and the presence of the old man was discovered. It was apparently all up when the clever girl proposed that the father be allowed to marry her to the sheriff before being taken away. With a little persuasion, the sheriff consented. For want of a wedding ring, the girl proposed the use of the sheriff’s handcuffs. When the unsuspecting sheriff was off his guard, the girl seized his gun, clamped the handcuffs on his wrist and hers and bade her father run. The old man got away safely, and the sheriff, realizing he had been outwitted, turned to the girl and folding her in his arms, said, “You win.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 8 October 2023.
References: Lyons-American p. 218 : Website-IMDb.
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