Jim Riley is to be arrested for horse stealing and when the sheriff knocks at the door of Jim's shack, he asks his little girl Nellie to go and tell the man he is not at home. Nellie tries to persuade the big sheriff that her father is out, but to no avail, for Jim is arrested and taken away, while he promises his little girl he will soon return.
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Harry Todd as Jim Riley
Eugenia Clinchard as Jim Riley's Child
Arthur Mackley as The Sheriff
Augustus Carney as A Rancher
Gilbert M. Anderson Director
United States 06 January 1912
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1912:
08 June 1912
The prologue shows the life of a trapper, living in the solitude of the forest. He digs a bear trap, which is covered with boughs and grass.
26 February 1912
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two.
29 June 1912
This film tells the dramatic story of the death of this famous Bible character and his trip to the witch of Endor, who forecasted his tragic end.
21 October 1912
Out in the farm-lands near Portland, the Widow Walters lives with her daughter Ethel. As far as affections are concerned, those of the widow are confined to her daughter, until Squire Lang, a fat old widower, with his son Harry, moves onto the adjoining farm.
01 March 1912
When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby.
12 April 1912
Otto Beckert has taken to his cousin, Aase, who has promised her heart to Tage Henning. In the pursuit of her love, Otto tries to tear the two lovers apart – and he succeeds! A single misstep and Aase ends up in Otto’s grateful embrace.
24 May 1912
A mad sculptor, searching for the perfect realization of "the mask of horror", places himself in front of a mirror after smearing blood over himself with the glass of an oil lamp.
31 December 1912
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
21 May 1912
Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthless father when they were of a tender age.
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