Past Redemption (1913)

Genre : Western

Runtime : 10M

Director : Burton L. King

Synopsis

Through the efforts of the Rev. John Drummond, who comes to a small western mining town with his little boy, all the saloons are closed. Jim Howe and his daughter, Nell, being unable to carry on a liquor business in the town, move to the mountains, where he runs an illicit still and continues to supply whiskey to the Indians. The sheriff gets on his trail and he is soon placed in the custody of the law. Nell, determining to avenge herself for the capture of her father, fires n shot into a party of hostile Indians, secreting herself in a bush as she does so. The Indians, seeing the soldiers coming, and thinking that they fired the shot, rush at them, but are defeated. This plan of revenge having failed, she makes her way to the minister's home, but is prevented from doing any harm to him by the maternal instinct which rises in her when she sees his little boy praying for his mother in heaven.

Actors

Richard Stanton
Richard Stanton
Rev. John Drummond
Ann Little
Ann Little
Nell Howe
J. Barney Sherry
J. Barney Sherry
Jim Howe - Nell's Father
Billie West
Billie West
Ann Drew
Thelma Salter
Thelma Salter
Little Tom
William Ehfe
William Ehfe
The Sheriff

Crews

Burton L. King
Burton L. King
Director
William H. Clifford
William H. Clifford
Writer

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