Bill Smith, a cowpuncher, is in love with Nell Parsons, daughter of Jon Parsons, a gruff old rancher. Bill wins Nell as far as she is concerned, but he must first ask father. When Bill broaches the subject to the old man, the father kicks him off the premises. All subsequent meetings are frustrated.
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Gilbert M. Anderson as Old Rancher
Fred Church as Bill
John B. O'Brien as Bill's Friend
Arthur Smith as Bill's Friend
Gilbert M. Anderson Director
United States 19 January 1910
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
10 November 1910
A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor.
06 July 1910
Film recording of a controversial boxing match with the first black heavyweight champion fighting a white retired former champion.
07 April 1910
An early silent short comedy directed by William Haddock.
25 September 1910
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.
29 October 1910
An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.
05 March 1910
The film pictures scenes on a big ostrich farm in Southern California, near Los Angeles. A large flock of several hundred of the big birds are seen feeding.
31 March 1910
A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man find more alluring than she, herself?
04 August 1910
A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity.
23 June 1910
It is a beautiful morning in Indian Summer, and White Doe is out in her birch bark canoe, engaged in a fishing expedition for food.
26 October 1910
Councilor Sven Ersson and farmer Jan Hansson have been bitter enemies for several years. Sven's neighbour Ola in Gyllby has a daughter Britta, the perfect partner for Sven's son Erik.
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