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An Actor’s Strategy
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Wilbert Melville
Cast: Henry King [Pedro Huerta], Dolly Larkin [Dollie Moore], Carl von Schiller [Bob Shaw]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. Scenario by Wilbert Melville. / Released 21 July 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? John Moore, a miner, leaves his wife and daughter for a prospecting trip to the Altar district. Successful beyond his expectations, he locates a rich placer mine and leaves for Altar to file his notice. His good fortune is known to Pedro Huerta, who has spied on him, and following Moore, Pedro does away with him, appropriates his claim and inserts his own location papers in the place of those of Moore. Sanchez, a renegade Mexican, has witnessed the crime and, accusing Pedro, demands hush-money. Six months elapse, and hearing no word of her father, Dollie leaves her mother and goes to the Altar district in search of him, carrying a letter which introduces her into the home of the sheriff. Here she meets Bob Shaw, an actor, who has been stranded in Altar, and has accepted a position with Pedro, now a prosperous mine owner. Dollie goes to Pedro’s mine to make inquiries concerning her father, and learning her name, Pedro is filled with apprehension, but finding that Dollie has no suspicion, he offers his services in the search. In the meantime, Sanchez continues his blackmail, threatening Pedro with exposure, and Pedro, who is infatuated with Dollie, pays him liberally for his silence. All is well until Bob Shaw, the actor, following Pedro into a saloon on business, accidentally overhears Sanchez threatening Pedro. Bob conceives an idea to frighten Pedro into confessing his crime and restoring the mine to Dollie. Decoying the murderer to the home of the sheriff, with a note from Dollie, Shaw appears before him, made up in an exact image of John Moore. Pedro, thinking it a ghost, makes a full confession, which is taken by the sheriff, who then arrests Pedro for the murder of John Moore. For consolation, after the exciting affair, Dollie turns to Bob Shaw, who has shown his loyalty to her.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Actors
Listing updated: 13 January 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
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