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  • The Superior Law (1913)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Superior Law (1913)
Short | Short, Drama
Joe Baptiste, a big young lumberman, while calling at a little cross-roads post office for his mail finds Rosalie, the pretty little postmistress, being annoyed by a burly stranger. Joe handles the stranger roughly and starts back to his ...See moreJoe Baptiste, a big young lumberman, while calling at a little cross-roads post office for his mail finds Rosalie, the pretty little postmistress, being annoyed by a burly stranger. Joe handles the stranger roughly and starts back to his cabin. The stranger waits for him in the woods and as a result of the encounter the stranger is hurled over the precipice to his death. Joe is later arrested and placed on trial for murder. His attorney, Charley Rock, pleads so eloquently for Joe at the trial that the lumberman is acquitted. Rock, during all this, has been on the outs with his wife. She has been receiving attentions from Captain Morris of the R.P.M. On this account Rock has been drinking heavily. A brother of Rock's wife adds to his troubles by forging Rock's name to checks. Rock drifts from bad to worse. In one of his wanderings away from town he meets Rosalie, the postmistress, who is also the daughter of a road-house keeper. A love affair springs up between them but Rosalie's father when he finds it out, forbids Rock and his daughter to meet. Rock one night under the influence of liquor decides to pay a last call on Rosalie. He enters the road-house where a merry party is in progress. While he is ordering wine for himself and Rosalie, a lumberman, who has reason to consider himself engaged to Rosalie, enters the place. A brawl ensues in which Rock is stunned by a heavy blow and is thrown through the window to an icy stream below. Later he is found half dead by Joe Baptiste, the man he saved. Joe carries Rock to his cabin and nurses him. Then he finds Rosalie and brings her there. Rosalie nurses Rock and their love affair proceeds. Meanwhile the word has gone to the town that Rock has been killed. Rock sees the accounts of his death in the papers and resolves to be a woodsman and let the world think him dead, in order that he can marry Rosalie without being a bigamist. The brother of Rock's wife being penniless and not daring to forge any more checks, becomes a desperado. In prowling about the woods he comes to Joe's cabin and finds there Rock and Rosalie who have just been married. He demands the Rock family jewels as the price of his silence. This is all a shock to Rosalie and she faints in Joe's arms. There is then a race between Rock and his brother-in-law to Rock's former home. When they arrive there they both see Rock's wife walking in her sleep, carrying a light. The attorney follows her out through the snow, but is not quick enough to prevent her from falling over a cliff to her death below. The bad brother-in-law gives up his quest at the sight of his dead sister while Rock returns to the woods to Rosalie. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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O.A.C. Lund
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O.A.C. Lund (scenario)
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Updated Apr 2, 1913
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Apr 2, 1913 (United States)

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Jack W. Johnston
Charley Rock (as J.W. Johnston) Charley Rock (as J.W. Johnston)   See fewer
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