A Wasted Sacrifice
R: Rollin S. Sturgeon. D: Robert Thornby, Charles Bennett, Roma Raymond, George Stanley. P: Vitagraph Company of America. USA 1912
Print: EYE
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“With all his faults, Jack Martin, an Arizona gambler, has one redeeming quality, a deep love for his motherless child. The baby is taken sick. Leaving her with Aunt Jane, the Mexican housekeeper, Jack goes for Dr. Winton, who is also the sheriff. The child dies. Crazed with grief, Jack gets drunk and shoots the town marshal. Leaping astride his horse, he escapes into the desert. Far out on a sandy plain, he comes across the dead body of a young Apache squaw, who has been bitten by a rattlesnake. By the side of the lifeless form he finds a child who has nursed from its mother’s breast and imbibed the poison. Jack thinks of his own child, and his heart goes out to the little one. (…)”
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At the End of the Trail
R: Rollin S. Sturgeon. D: George Stanley, Robert Thornby, Edna Fisher. P: Vitagraph Company of America. USA 1912
Print: EYE
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“With a warrant for the arrest of Manuel Lopes, a notorious Mexican horse thief, the sheriff strikes his trail. He finds the desperado out in the desert, prostrated by thirst. He revives him with water from his own canteen, and placing the handcuffs on him, puts him under arrest. After regaining his strength, the Mexican treacherously pretends to be weak. The sheriff, little suspecting an attack, is struck down by his prisoner. He is left to face the death from which he has just rescued his assailant. The Mexican takes the key from the prostrate man’s pocket, and unlocking the handcuffs, places them upon the sheriff. (…)”
Moving Picture World synopsis

“Almost every production company produced westerns; they were cheap and popular. Vitagraph’s western unit had a small stock company and produced a lot of short films that would later become the sort of movie that fans would call B westerns; the villains were often Mexicans and the plots were simple and suitable for the short length of these movies.”
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Filmography Rollin S. Sturgeon

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