In this western, bad man Edgar Jones comes across Clara Williams and her mother, outside their burning cabin. He takes them to his cabin, but mama is sick. At the urging of Miss Williams, Jones rides to town for a doctor, risking capture and prison.
It's a common enough story for westerns of this era; I've seen at least two Broncho Billy Anderson shorts with the same basic plot, and one Vitagraph. The question is, then, ho well does director Frank Grandin handle his cast and crew? He had appeared in 95 shorts for D.W. Griffith before taking over the megaphone, first for Universal and now Lubin. Considering the acting ability of Jones and the virtuosity that Miss Williams would display opposite Broncho Billy, William S. Hart -- who, presumably proposed to her, as he did to all his leading ladies -- and other features, I'd say not particularly well. Still, the excellent camerawork of this short, which was a standard for Lubin, offers something to recommend it.
It's a common enough story for westerns of this era; I've seen at least two Broncho Billy Anderson shorts with the same basic plot, and one Vitagraph. The question is, then, ho well does director Frank Grandin handle his cast and crew? He had appeared in 95 shorts for D.W. Griffith before taking over the megaphone, first for Universal and now Lubin. Considering the acting ability of Jones and the virtuosity that Miss Williams would display opposite Broncho Billy, William S. Hart -- who, presumably proposed to her, as he did to all his leading ladies -- and other features, I'd say not particularly well. Still, the excellent camerawork of this short, which was a standard for Lubin, offers something to recommend it.
