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Blasted Hopes (1910)
Short | Short, Drama
The gold-crowned fields of yellow, teeming with sparkling Autumn dew, furnishes a background for planning of life's young and with the too frequent result of blasted hopes. Sallie is a conventional country lass yet in her teens, who was ...See moreThe gold-crowned fields of yellow, teeming with sparkling Autumn dew, furnishes a background for planning of life's young and with the too frequent result of blasted hopes. Sallie is a conventional country lass yet in her teens, who was fond of her childhood sweetheart, Jasper, but one night a hunting party, finding their auto short of gasoline, drew up to the little farm house and asked for accommodations until they could send to the city for gasoline. Jim, the spokesman of the party, being more friendly, as it was he who first met Sallie in the corn field and through her directions found the father and bargained with him to pull his machine to the farm house for the night. Sallie entertains her guests with the family organ and soon all repair to their rooms, except Jim, who had quietly arranged to meet Sallie outside, presumably to take a smoke before retiring. They are seen strolling in the moonlight. A little band of gold is placed upon her finger and to the simple country girl a new life has opened up, and Jasper is no longer a serious consideration in her mind. On taking his departure the next morning, Jim presses firmly in her hand a note giving his city address and saying he would return and ask her father's consent for her hand. But Jim was an adept at making promises and equally so in breaking them and was in two months' time married to his fiancée in the city, and poor Sallie was to him as a page torn from the calendar of remembrance. She runs away from the quiet little home to the big city and tries to find Jim. Finding his address, she is informed he is not in the city. She patiently awaits his return, her money almost gone. Upon her return to the office, she finds him in and a smile lights up her troubled face, but only doomed to gloom, for she is confronted by his wife and faints from the shock. Upon being revived she wends her way to the public park to seek solace in silence and solitude. Jim, joy riding, is attracted and hastens to aid the suffering woman, when he discovers it is Sallie. Remorse is plainly visible in his face as the poor confiding girl is borne away. The scene carries us back to the little farm, where ma and pa are sitting alone, waiting and praying for their little girl until restless slumber had closed their eyes. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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William Nicholas Selig
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Oct 27, 1910 (United States)

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