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  • Her Great Mistake (1917)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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Her Great Mistake (1917)
Short | Short, Drama
Mary Dirke, daughter of John Dirke, a South African hunter, has a love for wild animals. Paul, who is in love with Mary, asks for her hand. Mary consents, and Paul hastens away to inform his parents. Paul is startled by the appearance of ...See moreMary Dirke, daughter of John Dirke, a South African hunter, has a love for wild animals. Paul, who is in love with Mary, asks for her hand. Mary consents, and Paul hastens away to inform his parents. Paul is startled by the appearance of strangers who have come into the country for the purpose of capturing and killing wild animals. John Dirke extends his welcome to Mr. Sellsman, the leader of the party, and puts them up at his home. Sellsman meets Mary, and soon learns of the private menagerie she maintains. He becomes interested and requests to be shown the effects of her training. Paul is jealous of Sellsman. One of Mary's leopards escapes, and the party start out to recapture it. The leopard is seen running into a hollow tree. Paul attempts to shoot it, but Mary's father interferes. Nets are set about the hole in different directions to await the return. Mary is dashing from the party when her head stubs the limb of a tree and she is thrown to the ground unconscious. Dirke and the hunters, unable to find the leopard, return to the net to discover that a lion has been there and escaped. This worries Paul, who believes the beast has attacked Mary. For a time the English sportsman is accused by Mary's father of having deserted her when she was in danger from the jaguars and tigers, who pursued her into a deserted cabin, but later Mary relieves him from this charge of cowardice. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Henry MacRae (as Henry McRae)
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Henry MacRae (scenario) (as Henry McRae)
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Updated Apr 22, 1917
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Apr 22, 1917 (United States)

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