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  • The Evil That Men Do (1909)
  • Short | Short, Drama, Western
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The Evil That Men Do (1909)
Short | Short, Drama, Western
Mary is sewing outside her cabin door, as the villain in our story enters and makes a proposal of marriage. He meets with a stern refusal and sneaks off, vowing vengeance. Mary enters the cabin and is setting the table as hero No. 1 enters...See moreMary is sewing outside her cabin door, as the villain in our story enters and makes a proposal of marriage. He meets with a stern refusal and sneaks off, vowing vengeance. Mary enters the cabin and is setting the table as hero No. 1 enters and asks her father for her hand. The old man nods assent, but Mary, upon being consulted, refuses. The old man upbraids her, pleads with her, but she is resolute. A little later another suitor, hero No. 2 we shall call him, comes in and is joyously received by the girl. The father standing by, notices the reception. The truth dawns upon him, and he orders Mary from the house. The last named is evidently not as much infatuated with Mary as she is with him, and realizing that he has tired of her, the girl determines to commit suicide. She starts for the river, and is just about to end it all when hero No. 1 steps from behind a tree, thwarts her plan and asks what has driven her to such a step. Mary refuses to tell, wanders off and, coming to the dancing hall, she sees the second hero through a window dancing and flirting with different girls. She calls him away, pleads with him to marry her. This the young man refuses to do, and he is about to cast her aside when hero No. 1 appears and at the point of his gun forces the other to swear he will marry Mary. Hero No. 2 now returns to his cabin, sits, down in deep thought. The villain enters, taunts him of the girl, and in the fight which ensues the hero is stabbed. The murderer tears off the blood stained part of his sleeve and throws it out of the window, where it is found by a Chinaman who is passing. Then observing the approach of the first hero, the villain sees a chance of fastening the crime on him, slinks through another door, proceeds at once to the camp where he tells of the crime. A crowd at once returns to the cabin, where they pounce upon the hero and take him before a judge. Evidence is overwhelmingly against the accused and a verdict of guilty is speedily reached and all hands start for an immediate execution, when the Chinaman, noticing the torn sleeve of the villain, stops the proceeding, fits the piece he found on the villain's shirt and the tables are turned. Mary steps forward, embraces the exonerated man and they are married by the judge, who but a short time before had sentenced the bridegroom to death. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Van Dyke Brooke
Writer
H. Austin Adams (play "'Ception Shoals")
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Updated Aug 28, 1909
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Aug 28, 1909 (United States)

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