The Tavern of Tragedy - Cast

The Tavern of Tragedy (1914)
Short | 20 min | Drama, Short

The Tavern of Tragedy (1914)

Short | 20 min | Drama, Short

Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around the place. One day, Bob Jamison, really an American spy in the service, comes to the inn ...See moreMaximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around the place. One day, Bob Jamison, really an American spy in the service, comes to the inn and stops overnight. He falls in love with the daughter of the innkeeper. She is infatuated with him, as he is the first human being who has ever been kind to her. He goes away but promises to return. While he is away a large reward is offered for his capture, dead or alive. The innkeeper tells the messenger of the news that if Bob ever comes back, he will put him into room seven and hold him. The daughter overhears this, and when Bob returns, unable to warn him, she changes the number on the door of room seven to that of six. When Bob is sent up to his room by Corto, he goes in what he thinks is seven but the daughter afterwards shifts the door numbers back to their original positions. Corto decides to kill Bob in his sleep and steals upstairs. The girl ties a note of warning on a weighted cord and flings it from her open window into his room. He reads it and escapes through the window. Corto slips into Room seven in the dark, with knife upraised. A shaft of moonlight discloses his daughter. He then knows that he has been tricked and slips off to six. Bob rides beneath the girl's open window; she jumps into his arms and they ride away together and escape Corto's vengeance. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Donald Crisp Bob Jameson - the Spy Bob Jameson - the Spy See fewer	How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Dorothy Gish Dorothy Bell - the Innkeeper's Stepdaughter Dorothy Bell - the Innkeeper's Stepdaughter See fewer	Nell Gwyn (1926)
F.A. Turner Bell - the Innkeeper (as Fred A. Turner) Bell - the Innkeeper (as Fred A. Turner) See fewer	Restitution (1918)
Vester Pegg Maximilio Corto Maximilio Corto See fewer	Bare Fists (1919)
Fred Burns Actor Actor See fewer	The California Mail (1929)