Dan Hart, a worthless good-for-nothing, takes the wedding ring from his wife's finger to pawn, and spends the money for drink, leaving a note saying he has given up all claim to her as his wife. Mrs. Hart takes her little girl and leaves for the west.
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Gilbert M. Anderson as Broncho Billy
Vedah Bertram as Mrs. Hart
Brinsley Shaw as Dan Hart
Audrey Hanna as The Harts' Child
Gilbert M. Anderson Director
United States 18 June 1912
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1912:
04 April 1912
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15 October 1912
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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.
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.
02 September 1912
Two girls fall in love with the same man. Out motoring one day they are thrown from the machine and carried to the hospital.
28 August 1912
A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.
11 February 1912
The inimitable Billy Quirk needs a wife in order to inherit his vociferous western uncle's fortune. Billy borrows his friend's wife.
19 September 1912
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned the other woman simply because of her profession, an actress.
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.
07 August 1912
SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compete with the newer foundries unless he makes radical changes in his methods and employees.
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.
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