Ernest Van Pelt
Nascimento : 1883-03-31, Kansas, USA
Morte : 1961-07-01
Director
A dog and his dead master's brother track down murderers.
Director
A silent short film.
Director
A silent short film starring "Fearless."
Assistant Director
Carlitos é libertado da prisão e imediatamente enganado por um falso pároco. Um colega ex-presidiário convence Carlitos a ajudar a assaltar uma casa.
Assistant Director
O senhor Pest experimenta diversos assentos num teatro, e fica irritado por não achar um lugar adequado para assistir sossegadamente ao espetáculo. Por essa razão, ele acaba arrumando confusão com a platéia, com o condutor da orquestra, e até com um bêbado chamado senhor Rowdy, que joga uma garrafa na cabeça dele.
Assistant Director
O Vagabundo e seu patrão têm dificuldade para chegar a uma casa onde devem colocar papel de parede. O dono da casa está irritado por não ter tomado o café da manhã, e sua esposa está dando uma bronca na empregada, quando os dois chegam. De repente, o gás da cozinha estoura e o Vagabundo se oferece para fazer o conserto. O amante da esposa chega e fazem de conta que ele é o supervisor da obra, mas o marido não acredita e começa a dar tiros com sua arma. A cozinha explode e a casa fica destruída.
Second Cop
It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
Farmer
O vagabundo encontra a garota dos seus sonhos e trabalha na fazenda da família. Ele ajuda a defender a fazenda contra criminosos, e tudo parece bem, até que ele descobre que a garota dos seus sonhos já tem alguém em sua vida. Não querendo ser um problema em suas vidas, ele pega a estrada, embora seja visto pulando e balançando sua bengala como se estivesse feliz por estar de volta à estrada onde ele sabe que pertence.
Edna's Father
Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
Sausage Seller
Um ladrão rouba a bolsa de uma enfermeira e, após isso, ele tenta roubar o Vagabundo, mas acaba perdendo os seus cigarros e fósforos. Já o Vagabundo, com fome, tenta roubar um cachorro-quente de um outro ladrão, com a sua bengala. Quando o ladrão tenta pegar a comida do Vagabundo, ele consegue pegar a bolsa da moça que, então, passa de mão em mão até voltar para as mãos da sua proprietária, que fica brava por seu namorado não tê-la protegido. O namorado vai até o lago para, desesperado, se atirar nele, mas o Vagabundo o salva.
Assistant Director
Caminhando com seu buldogue, Charlie encontra uma ferradura de "boa sorte" ao passar por um campo de treinamento anunciando um parceiro de boxe "que aguenta uma surra". Depois de ver os outros perderem, Charlie enfia a ferradura na luva e vence. O treinador prepara Charlie para lutar contra o campeão mundial. Um jogador quer que Charlie jogue a luta. Ele e a filha do treinador se apaixonam.
Spike Dugan
Caminhando com seu buldogue, Charlie encontra uma ferradura de "boa sorte" ao passar por um campo de treinamento anunciando um parceiro de boxe "que aguenta uma surra". Depois de ver os outros perderem, Charlie enfia a ferradura na luva e vence. O treinador prepara Charlie para lutar contra o campeão mundial. Um jogador quer que Charlie jogue a luta. Ele e a filha do treinador se apaixonam.
Broncho Billy's Brother
Broncho's brother has a quarrel with a greaser. In the fight that follows the greaser is bested, but swears to be avenged. Broncho's brother then goes home and while under the influence of liquor, strikes his mother. Broncho, hearing her screams, rushes into the room, but by this time his brother has departed.
The Hotelkeeper
The cattle owners have formed a lynching party and are in pursuit of a rustler who has been ravaging the country. Broncho Billy, the sheriff, goes after him and captures him single handed. He takes the prisoner to a hotel for the night, and while in the barroom the lynching party comes along. They leave their shotguns outside and step in for a drink.
Woman's Father in Cabin
Billy commits a robbery but a preacher inspires him to have a change of heart.
Hiram Clutts
Slim calls on Sophie, but has no more than gotten comfortably settled when Mustang arrives and is given all the attention. Very shortly Hiram, Sophie's father, comes downstairs and kicks Mustang out. Mustang returns with a note telling Sophie to meet him next day when the stage coach arrives and they will run away.
The Man
Broncho Billy, the sheriff, is in love with a girl, but another man wins her affections and marries her. He is a worthless sort of fellow, and when Broncho sees him in the saloon, drinking with an outlaw, he gives the bartender orders to sell him no more liquor. This causes a fight, but peace is soon restored.
Hiram Clutts
Slim receives a note from Sophie telling him that she will arrive on the five o'clock stagecoach the next morning, and for him to set his alarm clock so he will be sure to meet her. Mustang reads the note, and after Slim has gone to bed, substitutes another clock in Slim's room.
Hiram Clutts
Slippery Slim purchases a large piece of Limburger cheese. On the way home he stops to chat with Sophie, but Hiram, her father, chases him off the premises.
Slim and Mustang are rivals for the affections of Sophie, the cook at the O.K. Hotel.
Hiram Clutts
When eggs went up to $6 a dozen, Slim and Sophie try in every way to make their hen lay, but with no success. Mustang sees their efforts and decides to play a joke. One morning Slim receives a letter telling him that giving hens hot water to drink and putting salt on their tails will make them lay.
Claim Jumper
Broncho Billy, a prospector, makes a rich strike, but while he is examining the rock he is being watched by three claim jumpers. The minute he leaves the spot the jumpers gather up some samples of the ore, and after replacing Broncho's sign with one of their own, start for the claim agent's office.
Pete decides to steal Slim's clothes, when he chooses to bathe in the creek before going to a dance with Sophie.
Hiram Clutts
Slippery Slim and Mustang Pete are suitors for the hand of Sophie Clutts, but she cares nothing for either of them.
Peter Fango
Tim Cantle, an evil-looking fellow, is drinking at a bar. The saloonkeeper's daughter enters, and Tim, slightly tipsy, tries to kiss her. She struggles to escape him. Broncho Billy enters and draws his gun. Tim flees. Tim gets his horse and rides away. As he approaches a house on a hill nearby, he sees Annie Fargo run out of her home, her father cursing her. Tim seizes and kisses her. She strikes him in the face and screams. Her father then comes out and drives Tim away. He sends Annie back into the house, following her with his gun. Tim swears vengeance.
The Girl's Father
The division superintendent of the Montana Idaho R.R. finds it necessary to buy the property of an old settler in order to clear the right of way. The old man, with his daughter, has occupied the same cabin for years, and refuses to sell his holdings. The superintendent wires the general manager, who sends Broncho Billy, his assistant, with orders to get possession of the land at any cost. Broncho offers the old man an enormous amount, but is flatly refused. The daughter then leads Broncho into the yard, where he is shown the grave in which her mother has been laid to rest several years before. This is their reason for refusing to sell.
Hiram Clutts
Slippery Slim and Sophie are deeply in love. Slim incurs the enmity of Hiram Clutts, Sophie's father, and Mustang Pete. They swear vengeance. Mustang writes a note to Slim, signing Sophie's name, asking him to meet her in a cemetery. Slim finds a band of men waiting clad in sheets. He flees and asks Sophie to save him.
The Blackmailer
The city girl decides to turn over a new leaf and go west where she can start life anew. Several years later finds her the wife of a minister in a small western town and extremely happy. One day she and her husband find Broncho Billy, an outlaw, lying in the road suffering from a wound. They take him to their home, and while the minister hastens for a doctor, his wife dresses the wound. She steps into an adjoining room, where she is confronted by the man who had been so cruel to her years before. He threatens to expose her if she refuses to give him money.
The Female Impersonator
Slippery Slim, crossed in love, plots revenge with help from an unexpected quarter.
Hiram Clutts
Slippery Slim, the Justice of the Peace, serves a notice on Hiram Clutts, threatening to foreclose his mortgage unless Sophie marries him the next day. Hiram agrees that Sophie shall marry him as he demands. Sophie tells Mustang of this and they plan to elope that night. Mustang calls for her in his buggy, but they fail to make their escape unnoticed by Hiram. He chases them with a shotgun, but is unable to catch them before they reach Slim's office. They disguise themselves and Slim, not knowing who they are, performs the marriage ceremony.
Mustang Pete receives a letter from his daughter, Sophie, who is away at boarding school, asking permission to bring some girls home with her to spend their vacation. Mustang flatly refuses. That afternoon he and Slippery Slim have a fight over a checker game, and to get "square" Slim advertises the fact that he will pay his ranch hands double the salary that Mustang will pay. As a result Slim gets all of Mustang's helpers. Mustang then writes to Sophie and tells her to bring home the girls if she cares to. The girls arrive the following day and Mustang has an abundance of help, all of Slim's helpers deserting him.
The Doctor
Sophie tries curing Slim's drinking problem by forcing him to drink ammonia, but it doesn't work.
The Deacon
Sophie writes a note to her aunt telling her that she is undecided whether she will marry Slippery Slim or Mustang Pete, but says she will accept the one who buys the best-looking horse.