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  • A Night of Anguish (1913)
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A Night of Anguish (1913)
Short | Short, Drama
When Lawrence Lindsay's mother received his letter she read trouble between the lines. Her boy was trying to make his way in the oil fields and had put up his last $500 on an option on some oil lands. Lawrence told of how his chum Latham ...See moreWhen Lawrence Lindsay's mother received his letter she read trouble between the lines. Her boy was trying to make his way in the oil fields and had put up his last $500 on an option on some oil lands. Lawrence told of how his chum Latham was going to put up the balance needed on the land the day before the option expired. Now two circumstances had combined to make Latham the enemy of young Lindsay, the two boys were in love with the same girl and the oil land which they held options on was really of great value, a fact which Latham knew and Lindsay did not. Latham hired a gang of roughs to set fire to the well, which was producing and on the day previous to the one when the option was to expire, he refused to advance to Lindsay the necessary money. When Mrs. Lindsay received the word of this crisis, she packed a grip and started for the scene. She felt from the tone of the message that her darling boy was discouraged to the point that there was a possibility of his taking his life. In her grip she placed some securities and sent word that she wanted the night train to pick her up at the little station nearby. Being a stockholder in the company she was able to have this message bandied promptly by the dispatcher and all looked well. It was only for a few minutes that the smile remained on that sweet motherly face, however, because en route to the station, there was an accident to her auto and she was so delayed that the conductor refused to hold the express train at the station beyond the time he had been originally ordered. She arrived just in time to see the flyer pull out, having walked on after her accident. Consoled by the old station-master with the information that she can get a freight train at 5 o'clock in the morning which will place her in the oil field at 10 a.m., she agrees to accept his kind hospitality and remains in his little shack for the night. The station-master's wife starts to make things comfortable for Mrs. Lindsay and the old man offers to carry her small grip but she snatches it up and carries it in herself. This arouses the curiosity of the old man and as he sits on the outside of the house he derides to investigate. He knows that the guest is sleeping in the bed nearest the window and he raises it carefully but the cold air awakens her and she arouses the wife and they change beds, Mrs. Lindsay meanwhile placing the valise in a place of safety. The old man sits down outside the window and dreams that he enters the house and attacks the woman in the bed near the window, and then carries her out, bound and gagged, and ties her to the railroad track, to be mutilated by a passing train so that the body will be unrecognizable. With the roar of a passing train, which, in his dream the old man thinks will destroy the body he has placed on the track, the dreamer is awakened to find at his side the woman who he had thought tied to the tracks. Immediately the thought came to him that the two women had changed beds the evening before and then he believed it to be his wife who had been killed. Rushing to the imagined scene of his crime he was accusing himself of the murder of his wife when he heard a voice behind him. Here was the supposed victim, his wife, tapping him on the shoulder, "What's the matter, old man? You have had a bad dream." When he realizes that after all no harm has been done and his night of anguish is over. Mrs. Lindsay leaves a substantial fee with her hosts, catches the freight and arrives in the oil fields in time to save her boy from his difficulties and all ends happily. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Mar 26, 1913
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Mar 26, 1913 (United States)

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Lamar Johnstone
Lawrence Lindsay Lawrence Lindsay   See fewer
The Ne'er Do Well (1915)
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Julia Stuart
Mrs. Lindsay - Lawrence's Mother Mrs. Lindsay - Lawrence's Mother   See fewer
Life's Whirlpool (1916)
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