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A Western Coquette
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by [?] Gaston Méliès and/or Robert Goodman?
Cast: Francis Ford
G. Méliès production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 3 October 1912; in a split-reel with Clearing Land for Farming the West (1912). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [From Méliès promotional materials] Bud, a young cowboy, bashfully proposes to the popular Mary and is as bashfully accepted. Not even a kiss seals the compact. Soon after, Hamilton, an Easterner, visits her father on business and becomes attentive to Mary, and. flattered, she carries on the flirtation. Bud jealously protests, but is calmly given back his engagement ring. When, however, the two men come to blows over Mary, and Bud is injured, her true love for him reappears. She reproves Hamilton and once more accepts the ring from her bashful lover. // [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Bud bashfully proposes to Mary and is as bashfully accepted, without even a kiss to seal the compact. But he is jubilant, nevertheless, until the arrival at Mary’s home of Hamilton, a young business friend of her father’s. It is the first easterner she has ever seen and she becomes interested in him and even haughty over his attentions. When Bud objects to her indifference, Mary becomes indignant and gives back the engagement ring. Bud has asked her to a dance the following week and when the evening comes, she half expects him, in spite of the quarrel. When he does not come promptly she gets peeved and accepts Hamilton’s invitation. But Bud is on his way, much the worse for drink, to which the affair has driven him, and when he learns with whom Mary has gone he is furious. He enters the dance hall and is about to tell Mary and Hamilton what he thinks of them when the latter knocks him down unconscious. Mary’s sympathy is aroused and her true love for Bud comes back. She nurses him back to consciousness and once more accepts the ring. This time happily, for such is the way with women.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 22 May 2024.
References: Thompson-Star p. 232 : ClasIm-226 p. 55 : Website-IMDb.
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