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The Accidental Shot
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Fred E. Wright
Cast: George Gebhardt [the reformed gambler], Lillian Wiggins (Lillian Worth)
[?] Pathé Frères Films? production; distributed by [?] The General Film Company, Incorporated? [Pathéplay]. / Released [?] 11 or 13? September 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? John Flagg, a revenue officer, fell in love with Rose Watkins the moment he saw her, but when his duty told him to arrest Rose’s mother he did not let love interfere, neither did Rose let love interfere when duty told her to protect her mother. By clever maneuvering the girl got Flagg’s gun away from him, and when he persisted in arresting Mrs. Watkins, Rose shot him; Rose’s mother went to jail all right, but there Flagg’s duty ended and rather than punish the girl he loved for her loyalty to her mother, Flagg freed her of all responsibility with the simple declaration to the police that he was wounded by an accidental shot.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 27 September 1913, page ?] The accidental shot wounds and apparently kills a revenue officer in the cabin of an old woman and her daughter. It comes from his own revolver in his own hand and in the midst of a struggle with the old woman. He has just discovered that she is selling whiskey to Indians. Just before this tragedy is found out a reformed gambler, whom the daughter had saved from a hanging, comes in and takes the blame. In the end he is released and all things made to come out to the gallery’s taste. The story is told clearly and the picture photographed very well. George Gebhardt plays the gambler.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 26 November 2022.
References: Braff-Short n. 36 : Website-IMDb.
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