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Heroes One and All (1913)
Short | 21 min | Drama, Short

Heroes One and All (1913)

Short | 21 min | Drama, Short

Jane Smiley has two sweethearts, Jim Dorsey, a husky young policeman, and Jack Barbour, a young fireman. Every day on the way to work she passes first Jim and then Jack. Both men think they stand first in her affections, hot Jane is simply...See moreJane Smiley has two sweethearts, Jim Dorsey, a husky young policeman, and Jack Barbour, a young fireman. Every day on the way to work she passes first Jim and then Jack. Both men think they stand first in her affections, hot Jane is simply leading them on for amusement. She works at the main board in the central telephone office and one day has a row with a stenographer in a factory office of Fred Jackson. Fred, in exasperation, takes the phone from his stenographer to call down central, but changes his mind when he hears what a sweet voice Jane has. The conversation results in an introduction to Jane, the manager of the phone company being an old friend. Much to the chagrin of Jim and Jack, Fred gets ahead famously with Jane and finally asks her to marry him. She hesitates, not being sure of her love. Fred works late one afternoon and lets his employees go home early. A crook has sized up the situation and takes that afternoon as his time to call on an errand of burglary. On the dark stairs he lights his lamp and the match is dropped into some waste. He enters and surprises Fred, after locking the door. In the struggle that follows the telephone is knocked over and Jane, who is just leaving, seeing his call goes back to the plugs and listens at his wire. She hears the struggle, and Fred's life threatened as he is tied and gagged. She frantically rings the police station wire. The officer in charge sends oat a few men, one of whom is Jim, to go to Fred's assistance. Meanwhile the stairway is ablaze and smoke curls in under the office door. Jane listening at the other end hears the burglar's frightened cry of "fire," as he opens the door and is forced back by the smoke and heat from the burning stairway. Crazed with fear she plugs the fire house and Jack with the engine starts out for the factory. The burglar loses his head and is starting for the other door when Fred gets his attention. He unties and ungags Fred and they try for the window. The policemen meanwhile have found it impossible to get into the building, the lower floor being a regular furnace, and seeing Fred at the window they shout not to jump as it would mean sure death. The fire is getting into the room so they dash for the next room and close the door after them. The firemen arrive and begin operations. The two men are forced from that room and have to "jimmy" the door of the room opposite. The office is now consumed in flames and the burning phone gives its message to Jane who is carried out fainting. The firemen get up into the office window but are forced back. The men are now in the hall but cannot make the rear stairway that also being in flames so they burst into the first door they come to which is a storage room with a heavily screened window. Upon this window the burglar commences work and finally cuts the screen through. Fred smashes the glass which is seen by Jim as he rounds the corner of the building. Jane arrives and is held back of the fire lines. Jim and Jack get to the window and Fred commands them to take out the burglar first. The burglar is taken fainting down the ladder. Fred falls exhausted back into the flames and is rescued by Jim and taken down by Jack. Upon his recovery Fred sends the burglar on the right path and finds that Jane has made up her mind in his favor. The night the engagement ring goes on her finger Jim and Jack call but seeing the situation from the window outside decide to "beat it" and leave the lovers to their own happiness. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Harry Myers Fred Jackson Fred Jackson See fewer	City Lights (1931)
Ethel Clayton Jane Smiley Jane Smiley See fewer	Pettigrew's Girl (1919)
Richard Travers Jim Dorsey - the Policeman (as Richard C. Travers) Jim Dorsey - the Policeman (as Richard C. Travers) See fewer	The Man Trail (1915)
Martin Faust Jack Barbour - the Fireman Jack Barbour - the Fireman See fewer	Lena Rivers (II) (1914)
Eleanor Middleton Mrs. Smiley Mrs. Smiley See fewer	The Bride's Play (1922)
Richard Morris The Burglar The Burglar See fewer	The Spirit of the USA (1924)