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Dead Men's Tales (1914)
Short | Drama, Short, Western

Dead Men's Tales (1914)

Short | Drama, Short, Western

Tom Hopkins, crossing the plains with his wife and child, comes upon Blair and his family who have been attacked by Indians. He takes Blair, a shiftless and crooked miner, together with his family and sets them up next door to him in town....See moreTom Hopkins, crossing the plains with his wife and child, comes upon Blair and his family who have been attacked by Indians. He takes Blair, a shiftless and crooked miner, together with his family and sets them up next door to him in town. Hopkins has been left a map of a gold mine by his old uncle. With Blair he starts out to search for it. Finding it Tom stakes his claim, but that night when the two have lain down, Blair empties the other's canteen and driving his horse off makes away with the map and the gold they have picked up. From lack of water and exposure the unfortunate Tom dies. He leaves a note written in his own blood stating that his partner has left him to die after stealing his claim. Meanwhile Blair stakes out the claim in his own name and returning to town, brings a force of miners to work the stolen property, after telling Tom's wife that he has died from fever. A cowboy comes across Hopkin's body and finding the message rides to town with it. A posse is organized. Blair's wife, ill-treated as she is, goes to warn him. In order to gain her fresh horse, he pushes her off a cliff and escapes. The days pass and the brokenhearted wife of Tom. who has kept Blair's little girl with her starts a boarding house. Eighteen years after a strike occurs in the mines and Blair is sent for. He stops at the house of his dead partner's wife and is recognized. Mrs. Hopkin's son bribes a Mexican to avenge his father's death but Blair struggles free from his bonds and is escaping when he runs into a crowd of striking miners. They are about to shoot him when Hopkins enters upon the scene and the crooked mine owner tells them that young Tom is the rightful boss. Out of love for Blair's daughter, Hopkins' anger cools and Blair is saved from the violence of the mob where he stands with lowered eyes watching his daughter in the embrace of his dead partner's son. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Jack W. Johnston Tom Hopkins (as J.W. Johnson) Tom Hopkins (as J.W. Johnson) See fewer	The Land of Promise (1917)
Pearl Cook Myra Hopkins, Tom's Wife Myra Hopkins, Tom's Wife See fewer	Bransford in Arcadia; or, the Little Eohippus (1914)
Fred Hearn John Blair John Blair See fewer	The Dark Star (1919)
Lucie K. Villa John's Wife John's Wife See fewer	The Higher Impulse (1914)
Edna Payne Blair's Daughter Blair's Daughter See fewer	The Sacrifice of Jonathan Gray (1915)

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