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  • The City Fellow (1913)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The City Fellow (1913)
Short | Short, Drama
Henry Allen, a hustling New Yorker, goes to the timber region of Tennessee to make some big purchases of land for a rich syndicate. He goes to see old Ezekiel Burrows, the biggest land-holder of the neighborhood, whose pretty daughter, ...See moreHenry Allen, a hustling New Yorker, goes to the timber region of Tennessee to make some big purchases of land for a rich syndicate. He goes to see old Ezekiel Burrows, the biggest land-holder of the neighborhood, whose pretty daughter, Betty, makes a conquest at sight. Betsy is beloved by a rough, handsome and unscrupulous mountain fellow named Clay Nash, who intends to gain the girl for a wife and the old man's timber lands for himself. The arrival of the stranger enrages Clay who determines to show up the city fellow by frightening him and driving him back to the city in disgrace. Henry Allen puts up such a resistance, never lacking his sense of humor, that Clay is driven to desperation and with some of his mountaineer clansmen he tries to murder the visitor. They are told that Allen is a Deputy for Uncle Sam, searching for illicit stills, and it turns out that Allen actually discovers one in the back of Clay's place when he escapes from the gang's clutches. Betsy has learned of their trickery toward Allen and comes to the house of Clay to beg for his release. Allen hears her talking with Clay, as he slips away, and believes she is really in love with the mountaineer. Struggling against his own feelings he returns to the house of Betsy's father with whom he has been stopping, signs the agreement to purchase the old man's holding, orders out his horse and is starting away on his long ride to the railway with her father to guide him. They are overtaken by Betsy who tells that the gangsters are after them. Then Betsy admits her love for Allen, her father consents, and the three of them ride break-neck to the train in lime to catch it and leave the country safe and sound. At the depot they find the sheriff and some of his men and a trap is laid for Clay and his fellow moonshiners. The men ride into the trap, are arrested and handcuffed, to be put in safe-keeping, while Allen, Betsy and her father take the train for New York. There the deal is finished between the old Tennesseean and the syndicate, whose members announce that their money can hire enough soldiers and deputies to clean up the bad country in the timber lands while Henry Allen and Betsy Burrows are married with a handsome fortune to start them in life. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Eustace Hale Ball
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Updated Mar 18, 1913
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Mar 18, 1913 (United States)

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