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  • The Silent Witness (I) (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Silent Witness (I) (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Jack comes into the cattle town broke, looking for work. This he secures with a ranchman and in that this ranchman has a pretty daughter. Vera, the position particularly appeals to the young cowboy. As the days pass, Jack and Vera become ...See moreJack comes into the cattle town broke, looking for work. This he secures with a ranchman and in that this ranchman has a pretty daughter. Vera, the position particularly appeals to the young cowboy. As the days pass, Jack and Vera become attached to each other much to the disgust and anger of the foreman, George, who seeks Vera for himself. This foreman is the secret head of a gang of cattle thieves, and he has been planning raids on his own boss's ranch. Jack, in the course of his work, comes to suspect the foreman, but can find nothing on him. The foreman, on the other hand, schemes to compromise Jack in the cattle raids with the assistance of a Mexican. They plant on Jack's saddle an iron used in making over the brand on the horses that have been stolen. Vera has purchased a small camera, the only one to be had in the town. Of an afternoon she rides into the hills with Jack to take some pictures. They forget the camera on starting back home, and Jack returns to get it. Before joining Vera again, Jack runs into the cattle rustlers, and he snaps a picture of them from behind bushes, with the foreman in the foreground. Soon after the rustlers are attacked by the cowboys. But the foreman escapes without being detected. Once back at the ranch the foreman accuses Jack of being the leader of the gang and produces the iron concealed in Jack's saddle. In the meantime, Vera is in the dark room developing her pictures. Among them she finds one of the cattle rustlers. As Jack is about to be led off with a rope around his neck by the furious cowboys, she rushes out and displays the incriminating picture. The Mexican is captured and the two culprits are led off to jail. Jack and Vera, later, find many happy days together with Jack, promoted to the position of foreman. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Jun 22, 1914
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Jun 22, 1914 (United States)

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