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  • Legally Dead (1911)
  • Short | Drama, Short
Legally Dead (1911)
Short | Drama, Short
Arthur Stanley marries a girl who, though she loves another yields to her father's wish. A year later Stanley is called away to the quarry which he owns and is buried beneath hundreds of tons of rock by a premature blast. His foreman sends...See moreArthur Stanley marries a girl who, though she loves another yields to her father's wish. A year later Stanley is called away to the quarry which he owns and is buried beneath hundreds of tons of rock by a premature blast. His foreman sends a telegram to Mrs. Stanley, telling her of the tragic death, for he doesn't know that Stanley was protected by a great mass of rock and that when he recovers consciousness he finds a way out to the opposite side of the mountain. The awful shock, however, has robbed him of his memory and he doesn't know who he is. Rescues by kind-hearted folks he finally marries a lovely girl and lives happily until a snatch of music his present wife plays brings back all his past with a rush. He feels that he must go home but when he arrives he finds his first wife married again and his father-in-law getting a lawyer on the job finds that Stanley has been absent over seven years and is legally dead, thus making his wife's marriage legal. He returns to his second wife and all live happily ever after. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Feb 8, 1911
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Feb 8, 1911 (United States)

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