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:
03 November 1909
Gerolamo Lo Savio's version of William Shakespeare's Othello.
01 January 1909
Flower petals in the background create different shapes while actress Mary Cleo Tarlarini salutes the audience.
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.
28 January 1909
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father.
29 November 1909
A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.
23 July 1909
Pathé film #2871. In a hotel, a weary traveler settles down to rest. But, hallucinations brought on by fatigue: monsters appear around the bed, which vanishes, while the traveler, thrown to the floor, gets up and grabs a chair.
04 December 1909
Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.
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.
19 January 1909
Ruy Blas, one of Don Salluste's lackeys, falls in love with the young Queen of Spain, Maria de Neubourg.
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