Jim Watson loses his fiancée, Annie, to wealthy Easterner Walter Milton. Discovering Milton is already married and planning a fake wedding, Jim races back to stop the ceremony. After exposing Milton's scheme at the train station, a repentant Annie begs for forgiveness, and Jim happily takes her back.
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Gilbert M. Anderson as Jim Watson
John B. O'Brien as Walter Milton
Fred Church as The Mexican
Joseph Smith as The Girl's Father
William A. Russell as The Cowboy Whittling Wood
United States 11 December 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
16 September 1909
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink.
05 April 1909
A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person.
17 May 1909
John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman.
19 July 1909
Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city.
12 November 1909
Don José Navarro, a cavalry brigadier in the Almanza regiment, meets Carmen, a gypsy girl from Seville whose beauty and provocative air seduces him to madness.
30 August 1909
If all husbands have had similar experiences, it is too bad to harrow them up with the telling of this story.
16 May 1909
Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures.
15 April 1909
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her.
01 July 1909
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
04 November 1909
Out for a stroll, the short-sighted governess is more absorbed in her paper than in governing, leading to a series of unfortunate events, not least returning home with a boy instead of the daughter of the house.
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