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- An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
- A complete performance of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO filmed as a stage play with curtains between the five acts: Act I. "The Sailor's Return," Act II. "Twenty Years Later," Act III. "Dantes Starts on His Mission of Vengeance," Act IV. "Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo," Act V. "Dantes Accuses His Enemies," and "finis" at the end. This is the oldest known film of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Also, it depicts the oldest known film of the San Diego coast.
- An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
- Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
- A burlesque on the John Rice/May Irwin kiss in "The Kiss" (1896).
- The first of many filmed adaptations of Rex Beach's adventure novel of the Alaskan gold-rush.
- Part One. The first reel opens with the departure of the ship Pharaon from Marseilles, with Dantes and Danglars, the man who later incomes his deadly rival, as supercargo. During the voyage the captain dies. At the moment of his death he gives the charge of the ship to Dantes, and also entrusts to him the secret message to Napoleon, with the imperial ring which will admit him to private audience with the illustrious exile. Dantes succeeds in his mission to Napoleon, and sails back to France with a communication from Napoleon to Noirtier, who dispatched the original missive. On arrival at Marseilles, Danglars tries to get the command of the Pharaon away from Dantes, but Morrel, the ship owner, is well satisfied with Dantes, and gives him his captain's papers. Dantes, after an affectionate reunion with his old father, visits his sweetheart, Mercedes. Fernand, a fiery young fisherman, who has been trying to win her for himself, is much incensed at Dantes' return. He discovers Danglars' enmity for Dantes, and conspires with him and several habitues of the Reserve Inn to bring trumped up charges against Dantes. Their nefarious scheme succeeds so well that Dantes is torn from a jolly prenuptial feast by the magistrate's guards and hustled from the distracted Mercedes' side to a dungeon in the Chateau D'If, in Marseilles harbor. Part Two. The second reel depicts the awful years spent in the dungeon by Dantes. He grows grizzled, ragged and unkempt in the solitude. He manages finally to get into communication, through a secret passage, with a fellow prisoner, an old Abbe, who is being persecuted by political and religious enemies. The Abbe is an eccentric person, whose one thought in life is the recovery of immense buried riches, the key to the finding of which he holds in the form of an old chart. Finally the Abbe comes to die, and entrusts the chart to Dantes. After the discovery of the Abbe's corpse by the guards, and while the latter have gone out to fetch shots with which to weight the sack in which they have wrapped the Abbe preparatory to casting him into the sea, Dantes manages to drag the corpse into his own cell and substitute himself for the remains. He is cast from the parapet of the castle in the sack which is supposed to contain the dead body. He has supplied himself with a knife beforehand, and as the sack sinks Dantes rips it open and swims to an isolated rock, from the top of which he shouts, in his exultation over the escape: "The World is Mine!" Part Three. The third reel opens with the rescue of Dantes from the rock by a smuggler's schooner. During the cruise of the schooner, Dantes induces the captain to put him ashore on the isle of Monte Cristo, the spot named in the Abbe's chart as the depository of the hidden treasure. He discovers the exact cave and unearths the treasure. He makes his way to the mainland and lives in luxury among the Arabs, falling in love with the beautiful slave girl, Haidee. Captain Albert, of the French army, gets into difficulties during an attack upon his troops by the Arabs and Dantes, by his daring, saves his life. Albert, on taking his departure from Dantes' tent, thanks him profusely and invites him in Paris. Dantes, who has seen something familiar in the captain's face, starts when he reads his card, but promises, without comment, to attend the reception at Albert's. Dantes, in disguise, and known as the Count of Monte Cristo, visits Paris with Haidee. There he comes face to face with his old sweetheart, Mercedes, who has married his enemy, Fernand. Mercedes informs him that the young captain, Albert, is his own son. The final scene is a desperate duel between Dantes and Fernand, in which Fernand is killed.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- The daughter of an adventurer in India is kidnapped by a native king, whom she is forced to marry. She has several adventures battling natives and wild animals.
- Lost film that adapted L. Frank Baum's books "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "Ozma of Oz" and "John Dough and the Cherub". Only the narration script, read by L. Frank Baum himself, and production stills survive.
- "Company F, 1st Ohio Volunteers, initiating a new man. Nineteen times he bounces in the blanket, and each toss is funnier than the last one."
- Surrounded by a group of children, poet James Whitcomb Riley narrates the story of Little Orphant Annie, who loses her mother at an early age and is sent to an orphanage. Annie charms the other children with her stories of goblins and elves until her uncle comes to claim her. He and her aunt force Annie into a life of drudgery, treating her so cruelly that Big Dave, a neighboring farmer, takes her from them and places her in the charge of the kindly Squire Goode and his wife. Big Dave, who intends to marry Annie, is called away to fight in World War I. When Annie hears the news that he has been killed, she pretends to be gravely ill but wakes up to learn that it has all been a dream.
- Short actuality film which documents the passage of a Ringling Brothers circus parade through a prosperous Black community in Indianapolis.
- Two staid judges, Hay and Holt, are close friends. They have but one child each, an attractive daughter. These old fellows are very dignified and old-fashioned in their ideas, and they guard their girls with jealous care. Two young men of the town are enamored of those pretty girls and pay court to them. They are both surprised in their love-making, by the judges, who angrily order them from their houses, thereby humiliating the young men in the eyes of their sweethearts. The boys swear to get even. They determine to humiliate the judges. So they enlist the services of two gentlemen of shady reputation. The old codgers are enticed from their houses, carried off to a lonely shack in the woods, their beards are shaven off and they are dressed in the garb of children. Frightened half to death by their experience, the old fellows are turned loose to make their way back home as best they can. Their experiences are most amusing. The matter gets into the papers next day, but the names are withheld pending further investigation. Now the boys have them on their hips and threaten to reveal their names unless they give their consent to their daughters' marriage. Of course, the boys win, much to the gratification of the girls and the chagrin of the two crusty old jurists.
- When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah, but passion overwhelms them, and after making love, they are married by Father Roubier. The two are happy until Capt. De Trevignac, a dinner guest, recognizes Boris as the former Father Antoine, a priest whose irrepressible lust forced him to leave the monastery. De Trevignac says nothing, but after his departure, Boris confesses to Domini, who urges him to return to the monastery. The years pass, and Domini rears her son Boris in the Garden of Allah.
- The opening shows a colored nursemaid in the park with baby carriage, and seated on a bench receives the attention of several smart colored men who admire her greatly and endeavor to make her acquaintance. But the dusky belle is coy and declines to make the acquaintance of any of them, until one more fortunate than the rest is invited to a seat on the bench with her, and a most pronounced flirtation takes place between the lady and her beau. The course of true love seems to run smoothly, and we are next introduced to the lady's home, where the young man is paying a visit and is introduced by the girl to her, father and mother, typical old darkies of before the war time, and several funny scenes follow in which the kid hint her plays a prominent part. The coon favors his girl with many presents and lavishes attentions upon her, although it cannot he said that the courtship proceeds altogether without incident. A rival appears on the scene, razors are drawn and finally a duel is arranged, at which both suitors, accompanied by their seconds, appear on the field of honor and exchange shots at thirty paces; one of the combatants is carried off the field, while our original hero remains the master of the situation, and the girl, arriving at the moment, is so pleased with his valor that arrangements for the wedding are made at once. The happy climax is reached at last and the marriage ceremony makes the two coons one and ends the "wooing" in a wedding. Next is seen the home of the young couple, but quite a change has taken place. No longer does the colored gallant overwhelm his lady with presents and similar attentions. Put the familiar sign of "Washing Done Here" is apparent, and while the woman toils at the wash tub the married coon smokes, drinks and enjoys himself at his leisure until he decides to go out and enjoy the sights and pleasures of the town. In turn he visits a trap game and several other gambling scenes, not forgetting various saloons, at which he accumulates a very perceptible package. His gambling experience has been unsuccessful and he loses not only his money but his clothes as well, and finally is compelled to rob a scarecrow in order to get clothes enough to get home again at all, which he finally gains in a very disheveled and ragged condition. The unfortunate coon has not been home long before he is attacked by imaginary foes as the result of his drinking bout; seizing a broom he gives battle wildly but is surprised by his wife, who, disgusted with the condition in which her husband has returned, attacks him viciously and gives him the beating he so richly deserves and ends by throwing a tub of suds and dirty water all over him.
- Satan appears in a convent and takes the guise of a priest. Before long he is causing all manner of perturbation and despair.
- Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck. A bright baby girl was Molly's only comfort and gave her courage to endure the hardships which otherwise must have crushed her. The opening scene of the story shows a street in Wolf Hollow. Buck is on one of his usual rampages, and running into an athletic cowpuncher who is in town to spend his money, he makes an insulting remark and is soundly drubbed by the younger Hercules of the plains. Buck is proud of his fistic ability, and his defeat by a stranger before the denizens of the camp is more than he can stand, so he determines to pull up stakes and migrate to other parts. Stumbling along home to his cabin, he bursts into the one little room where his patient wife is rocking the little child to sleep, and with an angry growl informs her that he is going to "pull his freight" out of Wolf Hollow forever, and that she must accompany him, but leave the baby behind. Molly clasps the child wildly to her breast and begs piteously to be allowed to take her little one, but Buck is obdurate and gains his point by threatening to kill the infant unless she consents to leave it. Scrawling a note which he intends to leave, offering the child to anyone who may find it, he makes preparations for his immediate departure. Clinging wildly to her little one, the distracted mother is soon dragged from the house and told to mount one of the horses waiting without. Thus we see them riding away toward the setting sun, an inhuman father rejoicing in the prospects of shaking the dust of the hater camp from off his boots, a broken-hearted mother choking with sobs, thinking only of the helpless baby alone and deserted in the little cabin on the hill. Slippery Ann, a half-witted girl of the camp, meets Buck and his wife while on her return from a journey into the foothills, and is entrusted with the note Buck has written regarding the child. Hurrying on to Wolf Hollow. Ann turns the note over to Judge Honk, the father of the camp and dispenser of law and justice. The Judge is greatly exercised over the heartlessness of Buck, and calling the inhabitants of the camp about him, soon organizes a rescue party to repair to the deserted cabin of the Minors' and ascertains what truth there was in the strange letter. No time is lost in reaching the shack on the hill, and there, sure enough, lying on the bed is the infant. Taking it up rather gingerly in his arms, as though he were afraid of breaking it. Judge Honk heads the procession out the door and down the hill to the camp where a mass meeting is at once held to discuss ways and means of taking care of the kid. Cherokee Jim, the bartender of the "thirst emporium," suggests that they raffle off the youngster and whoever draws the winning card shall be the kid's adopted daddy. The raffle is quickly pulled off, and Ben Brooks, a good-natured, big-hearted cowpuncher, draws the lucky number. Ben almost reneges when he realizes what he has on his hands, but the cheers of good wishes of the rest of the bunch brace him up and they all retire to the "thirst parlor" to have one on the new daddy. After that "Ben's Kid" (as the baby is christened) becomes the one absorbing topic of conversation. Around the camp that night in the bunk house, a half-dozen sleepy punchers are trying to get some rest, while Ben in his bare feet is prancing around the room, jolting the baby up and down, while the youngster, terrified at its new surroundings, is making the welkin ring with its screams. "Fatty Carter," the heaviest weight on the range, does an Indian war dance, but to no avail. At last they all agree that the kid is sick, and a puncher is at once dispatched on the fastest bronco on the ranch to bring Judge Honk to the scene of battle at once (every one, of course, having absolute faith in the ability and knowledge of the Judge in all matters) to bring them out of the difficulty. The Judge soon arrives loaded down with mustard, and old-fashioned remedies of all kinds, and at once starts in to bring order out of chaos. Now, to return to Buck and his heartbroken wife. All afternoon they have traveled until near nightfall. The horses are unsaddled, the pack removed from the lead animal, and preparations are made to camp till morning. Now Molly has been turning over in her mind a plan, although a desperate one, it seems, the only loophole out of her present misery. Waiting until Buck has fallen into a sound slumber, she cautiously steals away from the camp fire and makes for a clump of trees in which are fettered the horses. Releasing her pony, she springs on his back and dashes away in the black night over the homeward trail. Aroused by the sound of her horses' hoofs. Buck awakes, and with a terrible oath upon realizing that Molly has outwitted him, goes crashing through the brush to his horse, and quickly saddling him, gallops away in pursuit of the fleeing woman, determined to overtake and kill her rather than let her escape from him for good. But he does not reckon on the swiftness of Molly's mount, and though he plies both whip and spur, his jaded horse is unable to gain a foot on the game little sorrel. On over rocks, through the stream, now down the slope of the mountain and across the gulch speeds the desperate woman, every nerve pounding on her brain, and every muscle strained to its utmost tension, her lips moving in silent prayer that she might outstrip the dread pursuer and regain the child fur whom her mother's heart cries out in bitter anguish. At last, brave girl, the goal is reached. Her way leads past the ranch on which Ben Brooks and the U.X. outfit are quartered, and seeing a light in the bunk house, the terrified woman heads her horse toward the beacon ray of hope. She barely reaches the door when the infuriated husband dashes up, bursting into the room. Molly startles the boys and the Judge into action. Buck, losing his head beyond control, follows her. "Save me," shrieks the terrified Molly. In an instant Buck finds himself in the grasp of a dozen willing hands. With a strength born of frenzy, he dashes them aside and draws his gun to shoot the cowering girl, when his aim is spoiled by quick action on Ben's part, and the Judge gets the bullet in his arm. Howling with pain, he yells to the punchers to hang the "varmint." But Buck is too quick for them, and knocking down a couple of the buys, he rushes his way out the door, and throwing himself into the saddle, plunges away into the night. No time is lost in going after him. Twenty swift riders are in the saddle before ten minutes have elapsed and they are off after the hated Buck, whose horse, already worn out from the other chase, is soon overtaken. A lariat hurls through the air and settles down about his neck, thus ending all hopes of escape for the fugitive. A letter written a year later to the Judge tells us what they did to Buck, while Molly, the pretty widow, is persuaded to let Ben retain his title to the kid by allowing Judge Honk to tie the knot, and Mr. and Mrs. Brooks start out on life's journey together, taking with them the good will and well wishes of the entire camp. -- The Moving Picture World, June 26, 1909
- Princess Elyata of Tirzah (Juanita Hansen) comes to the rescue of Stanley Morton (George Chesebro) and his sidekick Mike Donovan (Frank Clark), a couple of Americans who foolishly wander into a village ruled by slave trader Gagga (Hector Dion).
- Bruce Wilton has amassed a fortune which he lavishes on his wife Vera. But a note of menace creeps into their happy home. No one hears it at first, except Father Kelly, a priest and Bruce's former tutor. The priest goes quietly to work with his sharpened mental sense to find the person who is causing the adverse influence in the house-hold. When he is on the verge of discovering the cause, calamity sweeps in on Bruce; his fortune is swept away and in a manner that he believe his wife was the cause of his ruin.Husband and wife are separated, divorced and their home is destroyed, and yet the cause remains unknown. But Father Kelly, with his faith that moves mountains, goes on quietly, serenely and confident with but one purpose in mind - the happiness of those he loves.
- Vicky Hoskins, an eastern girl with story writing ambitions, goes west to get local color for a story. Tom, foreman of John Hicks' ranch, plans to joke the eastern girl. With cowboys, Tom rigs up a dummy, proceeds to hang it to a tree and tells Vicky that they were merely hanging a story writer who happened to come to the ranch, and Vicky nearly collapses with fright. Vicky decides to make love to Tom just to see how he acts, and so that she can tell what to do with her hero in her western story. John Hicks, the ranch owner, discovers Vicky's plot and tells Tom. Then Hicks and the boys accuse Vicky of trifling with Tom's affections. A stranger, who looks exceedingly seedy, approaches and he is asked to perform a supposed marriage ceremony between Tom and Vicky. Too late the boys discover that the stranger is a real clergyman, and that the matrimonial ties are binding. Later, however, Tom finds a means to cause Vicky to become content with her lot.
- Tom Bruce finds a thespian's life is not a happy one, and when the theatrical company goes on the rocks, he lands in a western town where a school master is desired. In order to eat three times a day, Tom teaches school and not the least interesting of his pupils is pretty Vicky Withers. An uncouth rancher known as Bill Stone loves Vicky, and when he sees that Tom Bruce and the girl are mutually attracted, he goes to Vicky's father. Old man Withers is a school trustee and he causes Tom to lose his job, and advertises for a schoolma'am. Tom's ability as an actor comes to his rescue, and he masquerades as a school mistress in order to remain near his lady love. Old man Withers is smitten immediately with the strange lady's charms. However, when he proposes the schoolma'am proves herself to be none other that Tom Bruce, and the old man finally consents to Tom's marriage with his daughter.
- In the grounds of a sanitarium are gathered a number of mentally (but harmless) deranged patients. The most conspicuous is a tall tragedian. When he escapes from his keepers the superintendent concludes that he will naturally make his way to the theater in search of an engagement. The various managers are notified, and the first man that excites suspicion is Montgomery Irving, a poor actor of the antique type, who honestly and vociferously applies for a position. He does not understand why he is detained without a contract, and is about to pull the house down when the manager receives word that the real "dip" has been recaptured elsewhere.
- Pauline Cushman leaves the theater to become a Federal spy. Working with Henry Holmes of the Secret Service, she escapes execution twice and helps Gen. Rosencrans in battle against Confederate generals Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan.
- The common, but perplexing problem is, what should be the plan for a woman, who, marrying a widower, finds that her husband's love for his first wife is eclipsing his love for her? This is the uncomfortable situation in which Betty finds herself a short time after her marriage to Tom, a jeweler, whose particular jewel is his daughter, Gladys. The young wife grows very fond of the child, and yet, at first, she meets antagonism in this direction, and this begins the primary trial with the husband, who sides with his little daughter. It was this incident that revealed to her that Tom idolized the memory of his first wife still as a living power. Fate seemed to be piling up humiliations for Betty, yet she turned the tide by winning the love of the child and through this means the greater love of her husband. A valuable package has been entrusted to Betty by her husband, but in the absorbing preparations for Gladys' appearance in a masquerade as a fairy, this package becomes mixed with discarded finery. When its loss is discovered, Tom bitterly reproaches Betty for her carelessness, but Gladys, arriving from the party and finding Betty in tears, rallies instantly to her support. Through Gladys, however, the chain of events that carry the package to the furnace room to be burned, is traced, and Betty, at the cost of severe burns to herself, rescues the packet. When Tom learns the true circumstances, he is deeply repentant, and at the end finds that Betty is truly worthy of all of his love and respect.
- In a traditional "magician" attire, the wizard of illusion and jump cuts, Georges Méliès, says the magic words and conjures up wonders from a plain wooden box.
- Lee Russell, a young business man, leaves the city for a vacation sojourn in the mountains. Jeff Smith and Joe Butler run a moonshine still in the mountains and Jeff is in love with Butler's daughter, Rose, but the love is not returned. Lee Russell, seen near the still by Jeff and Butler, is shot by Jeff and wounded. Under Rose's care Lee fully recovers from his wound, and learns to love Rose. Jeff sees Lee kiss Rose, and in a rage tries to shoot him, but Rose knocks the gun aside, and the men start fighting. Revenue officers, who have a warrant for Jeff's arrest, hear the noise of the fight, rush in and capture Jeff.
- This is a completely bogus entry; no film bearing this title was either produced or distributed by Selig or any other company during this time period; Tom Mix, as well as the other players listed, never appeared in any film with this title at any point in their careers. The only possibility is that it's a re-release title for other film, identity unknown, filmed after 1910.
- Miss Abigail Herondine, and her younger sister, Miss Philippa, are the sole survivors of an ancient Southern family. They live in the old family mansion. Miss Abigail is a mature maid of thirty-five, stern and severe, while Philippa is a beautiful, blushing girl of twenty. David Graham, a weak and unreliable fellow, is visiting in the vicinity while avoiding his creditors. He cannot resist making love to any woman he meets. Graham runs away with Philippa, after first having made love to Abigail. He deserts his young wife, who loses her mind in consequence, and is taken home to be cared for by Abigail. Graham joins the Confederate Army, deserts, and seeks refuge in the home of Abigail. He is disguised with a heavy beard, but Abigail recognizes him. She hides him from the searching soldiers but intends to kill him herself with her father's sword. Then his honor awakens; he surrenders to the soldiers and is shot as a deserter.
- A wealthy heiress marries "a spendthrift and a man of loose morals." After the honeymoon a creditor begins demanding payment, the husband insists that his wife pays the bills because the law states that a woman's possessions are controlled by her husband. She attempts to leave her husband with the children and is tried in the courts for abduction.
- A picture dramatization from Sir Ed Burne-Jones' famous painting, with suggestions from that world famous poem by Rudyard Kipling, each conceded a peer in the literary and world of art. This great subject handles deftly the realms of the imaginary inner circle of society. (Even as you and I) A fool there was and he made his prayer, To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool called her his lady fair (Even as you and I). Guy Temple, as "the fool there was" marries his brother's ward, his boyhood sweetheart, Emily. The young husband becomes ensnared in the toils of the Vampire (a destroyer of souls). Clandestine meetings are arranged and the cunning, unscrupulous, satanic actions of the Vampire compels the poor weakling, Temple, to falter and fall before her charms. John Temple, the other brother, determines to save the young husband when he discovers his perfidy, and to recover the jewels given the Vampire by Guy. In a dream he remembers where he had seen Loie before. She it was who had ruined the life of Emily's father and rendered the then slip of a girl an orphan. Seeking out the brother, John Temple told him Loie was a Vampire, that she had ruined his own wife's father and to quit her under threat of his life. He offers Loie a large sum of money to leave America. But her promise is soon forgotten; her direful work continues, the tightening strands on wrecking souls of mortals. The fool was stripped to his foolish hide (Even as you and I). Which she might have seen when she threw him aside (But it isn't on record the lady tried) So some of him lived but the most of him died (Even as you and I). The young husband's mind is rent; his honor gone and the yawning abyss of the great beyond seeks its own.
- A collection of stunts pulled from previous movies starring Tom Mix.
- Who stole "The Millionaire Baby?" Did the plotting Doctor Pool finally accomplish his bold determination? Did Valerie Carew, former Burlesque Queen conquered by Mother-Love seize an advantageous opportunity and steal away her loved one? Did Marion Ocumpaugh have knowledge of Gwendolyn's disappearance? Did Justin Carew, finally recognizing his wife and desiring a reconciliation, see the light and kidnap his own child?
- Urged on by his wife and daughter and against his better judgment, Texas cattle-baron Maverick Brander, finds himself in Washington D. C. as an elected congressman. However, when the Brander family arrives in Washington, they are met at every junction by snobbery and ridicule. Then an investigative committee arrives from Texas to check up on how Maverick is representing their interests.
- Al Matthews writes to his old friend, Daniel Miller, that a young lady wishes to come west to sketch some real western scenery, and will arrive at Miller's ranch within a few days. Daniel Miller is well along in years, but when grace, the artist, appears at the ranch, visions of matrimony again come to the old gentleman. Tom, Daniel Miller's son, also admires the pretty girl. It does not take long for Tom and Grace to fall in love, but their love-making is constantly interrupted by the interference of father. Grace wishes to paint a picture, and she induces Tom's father to pose as an angel banging from a rope which is tied to the limb of a tree. When father is thus made secure, Tom and Grace escape to plight their troth uninterruptedly.
- Luke Fisher, a rascally sheriff, and Brad Foster, his deputy, are in reality cattle rustlers. To protect themselves, they endeavor to fasten the guilt on Tom Snow, foreman of the Three "A" ranch. When they come to arrest Tom, he drives them off at the muzzle of a gun and makes his escape. After a daring ride horse and rider dash across a narrow foot-log which bridges a chasm. Should the horse make a misstep, the rider would have been plunged to a horrible death on the rocks hundreds of feet below. West, proprietor of the Haven Delight saloon, has adopted a pretty girl, whom he calls Sunshine. Craig Keyes, a gambler at the Haven Delight saloon, resolves to marry the girl, but when she refuses him, he endeavors to overpower her. Finally, after a sensational struggle, she escapes into a driving storm. As Sunshine wanders in the rain, she encounters Tom Snow. He cares for her and thus it is that the two come to love each other. The sheriff and his deputy, fearful of detection, Ieave the country, and Tom is again free. Then it is that be marries Sunshine. After the wedding, by means of old tin-types, the two are led to believe that they are brother and sister. As they sit horror-stricken. Martha, the housekeeper, who has seen the tin-types, tells them that their belief is a wrong one. Martha tells them that twenty years ago while she was a nurse in a hospital, she changed the real infant brother and sister, and that Sunshine is in reality the sister of Craig Keyes and that she, Martha, is Tom's mother. In the meantime, Craig Keyes, the gambler, has followed Sunshine to her home, and outside he overhears Martha's story. Conscience-stricken, he resolves to renounce all relationships, and leave the country.
- While on vacation from college, William Bankinton is shipwrecked. His mind a blank, he is picked up by a derelict ship upon which there are only a lion and a stowaway named Broot. After Broot commits suicide, Bankinton and the lion are cast adrift upon the shores of Africa where they exist in a primitive state for several months. One day, when Nakhia, the daughter of the Bedouin chief Ali-Es Hadji is out riding, she is beset by danger. Bankinton comes to her rescue and gradually he and the girl fall in love. Ben Saada, the bandit chief, desires Nakhia, and tries to kidnap her. The lion and Bankinton once again come to her defense, and in the ensuing fight, Bankinton is struck on the head and his memory is restored. He then proposes to Nakhia, and the couple set sail to America where they are reunited with Bankinton's family.
- A tramp steals a housewife's pie, and is pursued by her bulldog, which latches onto his rear as he scrambles over a fence.
- In the wild west, Tom's wife, Nell, yearns to return to big city life. Slippery Jim offers her a way--and she takes the couple's young daughter with her. Will Tom ever see his child again?
- A 'legless' man is begging on the street. When a coin misses his cup, he stands up to get it, only to be discovered and chased by a policeman.
- Moya Lantry, a belle of Cattleland. has captured the hearts of two bold cowboys, Bob Davis and Frank Scott. They arrange, a contest to decide which shall marry her and Scott wins out by a trick. Old man Lantry is suspicious of Scott, and tells him to earn a thousand dollars before he can marry Moya. Scott rides away and encounters Manuel Baca, a disreputable Mexican, who plans to hold up the stage. Scott joins him in the venture, which proves successful, but. while escaping with his share of the plunder, Moya and Davis discover him. With Scott eliminated from the field through his own crooked acts, Bob and Moya obtain her father's consent to their marriage.
- The Pasha's servant Mohamed, is entrusted to guard the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad with his life. In New York, after banker Arthur Wadsworth forces his brother Horace to give up his inheritance, Horace joins a band of crooks and plans to rob the Wadsworth Bank by tunneling from the adjacent home of antique dealer George P. A. Jones. The gang follows Jones to Egypt and Bagdad, where Horace steals the carpet and sells it to Jones. Fortune Chedsoye, the innocent daughter of a gang member, falls in love with Jones. When Fortune discovers that Mohamed plans to kill Jones to retrieve the rug, she hides it with her mother's belongings. Mohamed forces Jones, Wadsworth, and Fortune into the desert, but they escape his torture during a sandstorm. Wadsworth then rejoins the gang at Jones' home in New York. When Fortune and Jones catch the crooks tunneling, Jones, sympathetically, gives them a two hour head-start before informing the police. Fortune and Jones keep the carpet, while in the East, Mohamed bows in resignation to Allah's will.
- Lizzie and Hiram, in love with one another, decide to elope. Lizzie's Pa does not favor the union. The sheriff of the county receives word that a couple of "nuts" have escaped from an asylum. Lizzie and Hiram steal downstairs, clamber into a buggy and drive away, seeking a minister. Pa discovers their escape and starts in pursuit. He, unfortunately, spies the "nutty" couple, who are also driving along, and follows them, but too late discovers that they are strangers to him. However, he places them in jail. The sheriff has gone forth in search of the two lunatics and mistakes Lizzie and Hiram for them. He arrests the elopers, and places them in jail as the supposed lunatics. There Lizzie and Hiram meet Lizzie's Pa. He escorts Lizzie home and sets her to peeling potatoes.
- Luke Barns obtains employment with a moving picture concern as a cowboy and declares himself capable of performing any or all feats such as cowboys are supposed to perform. In the first picture he writes a letter to his uncle stating that the arduous duties in connection with picture making, have caused him to desire to take a vacation, which he will spend on his uncle's ranch. In his letter he indicates that he is the "real stuff" as a cowboy, which causes much amusement to the uncle and arrangements are made for a reception which will quickly prove out the pretensions of his boastful nephew. Luke arrives at the ranch dressed in gorgeous paraphernalia such as only stage cowboys can discover in the metropolitan shops. He is girded with brass studded belts, fluffy "chaps" and struts like a turkey cock into the ranch where he is immediately introduced to the working cowboys, who suspend all operations in order to feast their eyes upon the gorgeous splendor of the new arrival. Luke is not bashful in the least decree. He finds an audience to his liking and proceeds to entertain them immediately with the story of his thrilling "stunts." First, he describes the thrilling manner in which he pursued and tied a steer in record time. He describes this so vividly, that the hearers think that he is telling the truth. They can see in their minds' eye exactly how he did it. Next, he describes his adventures in sticking like a bur to the back of a fractious broncho. This they believe also. Then he describes in a thrilling way how he rode down a run-away steer and bull-dogged it by springing from the saddle, grabbing the steer, and throwing it to the ground. Then follows his narrative of a perilous pursuit of a tram on horseback, and catching the rear car by leaping from the saddle to the steps of the freight car. He relates his rescue of the leading motion picture lady from a band of blood-thirsty stage Indians. He relates vividly a thrilling pursuit by "bad" men on horseback, and boastfully relates how quickly they turned "tail" and rode back to the mountains as soon as they discovered whom they were pursuing. He exhibits with pride a medal of doubtful antecedents, which he states was presented to him by his admiring co-workers in the motion picture studio. In fact, there is no work that day at the ranch, because the harrowing and exciting incidents related by the boastful Luke, have rendered everybody hors du combat. After leaving the hero, Luke Barns, surrounded by an admiring audience, the pictures in the second reel, proceed to explain just what the boastful hero really did. But luckily for his peace of mind, the boys on the ranch are not supposed to know about this. All of the scenes shown in the first reel are reproduced, only the climax of each scene is entirely different. The boastful Luke has a most comical mishap at the conclusion of each attempted "stunt."
- Edythe, an eastern girl, receives an invitation from Alice, her school days' chum, to visit her in the west. Alice sends a photograph of her brother Tom, who is a stagecoach driver. The gambler finds a letter lost by Tom, telling of the arrival of a shipment of money. With the aid of bandits he resolves to overtake the stagecoach on its return trip. Tom meets Edythe at the station, and gets the express box. and they start on their homeward journey. In the wilderness a wheel is broken, and as Tom is fixing it, he spies the bandits on a distant hill. There is a wild drive, and the pursuing bandits shoot down a horse. The horse is taken from the harness and the journey is continued with three horses until the front wheel comes off and the stagecoach upsets throwing Edythe and Tom to the ground. Bullets are flying around Tom and Edythe and one strikes Tom in the arm. However, the stagecoach guard gets the sheriff and posse in time capturing two of the bandits. The stagecoach driver is rewarded by the affections of his beautiful girl passenger.
- Piggott Luce, a prominent citizen in a small town having two rival regiments, becomes a private in the Milk White Guards. Mrs. Luce makes it her business to domineer over Piggott. There ensues rivalry between the Milk White Guards and the Black Guards and many plans are carried out by each regiment to outdo the other regiment. Piggot Luce and Phil Graves, the undertaker, plot to defraud an insurance company. Piggott is supposed to die while Graves carries him to his undertaking establishment, and spreads the news abroad. Mrs. Piggott Luce is delighted when she hears the news of her husband's passing, causes her charming daughter of nineteen to don short dresses and proceeds to go forth and capture a husband. The White Guards see an opportunity for a military funeral and prepare to bury Piggott Luce with all honors. Piggott Luce, half-starved, is about to throw up his job as being dead, when Phil Graves shows him a certified check for the insurance money, and he resolves to go through with the plot. The funeral march of the White Guards is most impressive, being headed by a full brass band and the Colonel of the White Guards astride a prancing steed with sword drawn. However, en route to the graveyard, a locomotive causes the horses drawing the hearse to run away. Piggott Luce is precipitated down an embankment into the river, where he quickly comes to life and falls into his wife's arms.
- A Mexican leaves his wife and family with hunger staring them in the face to get a job on the "Rocking Chair" Ranch, so that he can supply them with life's necessities. Mexicans are not popular at the ranch and the new man is bullied and persecuted until he tries to kill his foreman, whereupon he is kicked out. He plans to burn the ranch buildings out of revenge. While the crew is away riding herd, the Mexican steals back to the ranch and arranges for the conflagration. The foreman's baby daughter is bitten by a rattlesnake and the frantic mother forgets the hostility of the Mexican in her anxiety. His innate manhood causes the Mexican to forget his revenge and ride for the doctor on the fastest horse on the ranch. Seeing him ride madly past, the foreman shoots him for a horse thief. The Mexican brings the doctor, the baby is saved, his courage is rewarded and his family is saved from starvation.
- Of course, the artist is behind in his work, for that, he is an artist, and the impertinent office boy reproves him, for that he is an office boy. Sleepily and automatically he draws a picture of Doc Yak and then, awakening, throws him into the discard in the waste-basket. Then he plunges into his work again; then cat-naps. There is a vibratory stir in the basket; Doc Yak comes to life and climbs out, and thereafter becomes a very active feature in the animated comicalities that line up and disappear in this merry mystery.
- Tom Bates is living in the city enjoying a liberal fortune left him by an uncle recently deceased. When Tom received his fortune he was working on a ranch as a cowboy and was a top-notcher, too. In the city he has met May, a charming and beautiful girl, who is engaged to marry him. Tom rescues a forlorn girl in the park from a ruffian. May breaks the engagement and Tom decides to return west. He gets a job as cowboy on a big ranch after demonstrating his prowess in every manner, so that he at once becomes a favorite. May is invited to visit her aunt's ranch and on the way the stagecoach in which she is riding is run away with by the frantic horses. Tom and his companions witness the runaway and Tom, riding across fields, intercepts it, imperils his life by leaping from his horse to the footboard, and reining in the runaway team he saves the life of May. Tom is astonished to find her in the coach and she is delighted to find that he is her preserver. They are happily reunited.
- Captain Iris and Lieutenant Payne, brother officers in the British army, are commanded to report for duty in the Soudan. Hasty preparations are made and the two young soldiers, with their escort, begin their weary march across the hot desert sands. They finally reach an oasis, where a halt is made and the long line of soldiers with their camels and horses are given an opportunity for a brief rest. A quarrel ensues between the two officers and the Lieutenant is struck down suddenly. Through the treachery of their Arab guide the camp is attacked, their horses and camels stolen and the soldiers are massacred by a hundred murderous savages of the desert. Believing the Captain to be the only survivor, the Arabs take him captive to their stronghold in the hills. Years elapse. A caravan is seen slowly winding across the desert. It is part of Kitchener's victorious army passing over the Soudan. A strange creature is seen in the immediate foreground, a snake is crawling along the sands, the being raises his cudgel and is about to kill the snake when he espies the caravan coming towards him and immediately bounds away in fright. He is pursued by the soldiers, who bring him to bay in his cave on the hillside. After a desperate fight the soldiers bring him out into the sunlight and find that he is a white man, one of their own race, but stark, raving mad. Hanging to the tattered rags upon his back is a button of the British army. Was this poor, wild, raving creature once a British officer? The flag is fetched and placed before him. He sees it and pauses in his wild fear. Wildly he clutches the banner. The soldiers stand in breathless expectancy. Slowly he looks from one to the other. Something from the hazy past comes to him. Gradually he remembers; he was once one of them. The soldiers at last reach their home post. The desert has been robbed of its prey. The lost comrade has been brought back to life and love and civilization. But who is he? The denouement is happy and startling and brings to a finish one of the best pictures ever made by Selig.