21 Apr 1916
The Good Bad-Man
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
The Desert Man
William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.
Top Billed Cast
William S. Hart Jim Alton
Margery Wilson Jennie
Buster Irving Joey
Henry Belmar Razor Joe
Milton Ross Tacoma Jake
Jack Livingston Dr. Howard
Walt Whitman Old Burns
Josephine Headley Katy
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