The Silver Lining - Cast

The Silver Lining (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

The Silver Lining (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Nellie Allen, a stenographer, is supporting her father who is dying with tuberculosis. She loses her position. Nell's father forges a check to save Nell from making the supreme sacrifice. The father is sent to prison. Nell obtains ...See moreNellie Allen, a stenographer, is supporting her father who is dying with tuberculosis. She loses her position. Nell's father forges a check to save Nell from making the supreme sacrifice. The father is sent to prison. Nell obtains employment as a companion to the mother of Dick, a wealthy, young ranch owner. In the meantime, Nell's father escapes from prison. Dick and Nell become friends. Her father, after his escape makes straight for the Murdock ranch. In the dead of night he knocks on Nell's window. Nell, frightened, opens the window. One of the cowboys, who receives a cold reception when he tries to make love to Nell, was in hiding and saw everything. The next day while talking to the other cowboys he tells of seeing a man enter Nell's window. Dick overhears the conversation. He thrashes the cowboy but later goes to Nell's room. He finds Nell's father hidden in the clothes closet. The cowboy overhears Nell tell Dick that her father had escaped from prison. Planning revenge the. cowboy goes to the sheriff and tells him everything. The posse is assured that Allen is not there, but the cowboy tells them where he is hidden. They break in Nell's room and find her kneeling beside her father's bed, the aged man is dead. Dick offers an explanation. The sheriff turns abruptly on the tell-tale cowboy, who, at pistol's point, is driven from town. Dick takes the girl in his arms and then and there declares his love. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Gayne Whitman Richard Grant (as Alfred Vosburgh) Richard Grant (as Alfred Vosburgh) See fewer	Money Madness (1917)
Vivian Rich Nell Allen Nell Allen See fewer	In Trust (1915)
Roy Stewart A Jealous Cowboy A Jealous Cowboy See fewer	Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness (1926)
Charles Newton Mr. Allen - Nell's Father Mr. Allen - Nell's Father See fewer	The Warning (II) (1915)