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Smiling Bob
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Gaston Méliès and/or Robert Goodman?
Cast: William Clifford [Jim], Mildred Bracken [Molly], Francis Ford [Smiling Bob]
G. Méliès production; distributed The General Film Company, Incorporated [American Wild West Films]. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 15 February 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? In a western town, Smiling Bob, a miner, is in love with Molly, the pretty daughter of another miner. Soon an easterner arrives, whom Bob defends against the attacks of the rough miners, and among other witnesses, introduces him to Molly at a dance. Molly falls in love with Jim. At the mine where Jim secures employment a workman named Pete. Jim has a quarrel with Pete and threatens to take it up later. An accident occurs, in which Pete is seriously hurt, and the miners, having heard the threat, accuse Jim. He is tried and condemned, and locked in a room preparatory to being lynched. All this time Bob has seen the girl of his love won from him, gradually, degree by degree, for indeed she let him down easily. But he took it with a smile and good nature, such as had characterized his every dealing in life, and his true love for her remained steadfast. At this crisis in Jim’s life, Molly turns to Smiling Bob for help, and for the love he bears the girl and to make her life happy, though to virtually wreck his own, he accomplishes Jim’s release and escape. And until the paper upon which these were written disintegrated, he carried these words near his heart, “Jim and I were married today. We will never forget what you did for us. I am so happy. Molly.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 23 May 2024.
References: Thompson-Star p. 231 : ClasIm-226 p. 55 : Website-IMDb.
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