Senorita Betty Harte turns down Alcalde Hobart Bosworth's marriage proposal because she loves caballero Herbert Rawlinson. Bosworth hires an Indian to kill his rival in this mediocre short film.
Bosworth came to the movies because his tuberculosis meant he had to be outside in warm climates, and the industry in California was just the place for him. He ran his own productions, releasing first through Selig and later through Paramount, until he joined the company. His star slid gradually as he aged, to major supporting actor, but at his death in 1943, he was still in demand for "elder statesman" roles, having racked up almost 300 roles, split between shorts and feature -- not to mention almost 60 directing credits.
This, alas, is not one of his more distinguished efforts, with a script that depends on coincidence, intuition and people more interested in playing dress-up and posing than in acting -- I blame director Frank Montgomery.
Bosworth didn't hold any ill-will for Rawlinson's leding role here; it was basically Bosowrth's repertory company, and he cast the roles as correctly as he could. That's why when he made his version of Jack London's THE SEA WOLF a year later, he gave Rawlinson the role of protagonist Humphrey van Weydon -- but played Wolf Larsen himself.
Bosworth came to the movies because his tuberculosis meant he had to be outside in warm climates, and the industry in California was just the place for him. He ran his own productions, releasing first through Selig and later through Paramount, until he joined the company. His star slid gradually as he aged, to major supporting actor, but at his death in 1943, he was still in demand for "elder statesman" roles, having racked up almost 300 roles, split between shorts and feature -- not to mention almost 60 directing credits.
This, alas, is not one of his more distinguished efforts, with a script that depends on coincidence, intuition and people more interested in playing dress-up and posing than in acting -- I blame director Frank Montgomery.
Bosworth didn't hold any ill-will for Rawlinson's leding role here; it was basically Bosowrth's repertory company, and he cast the roles as correctly as he could. That's why when he made his version of Jack London's THE SEA WOLF a year later, he gave Rawlinson the role of protagonist Humphrey van Weydon -- but played Wolf Larsen himself.
