Old Si Spunk is dying, and leaves his shack and acres in Montana to Elizabeth Spunk, his niece, in the East. A cowboy finds a photograph of a fierce looking old maid with the name "Elizabeth Spunk" on the back. Thinking this is the niece, Tom and Jerry, two of the cowboys, hit upon an idea to drive her out of the country.
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26 June 1915
The Grizzly Gulch Chariot Race is a silent Western
02 February 1915
Moya Lantry, a belle of Cattleland. has captured the hearts of two bold cowboys, Bob Davis and Frank Scott.
25 June 1922
With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. He obtains a parson's outfit from a pawnshop and shortly thereafter winds up in a barroom brawl.
01 March 1925
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
24 November 1914
Tom Jackson, a young man of good family, is elected sheriff. He is in love with Nell Turner, whose brother, Jack, is a reckless young fellow and belongs to a gang of bank robbers.
12 February 1915
Esther Lee, a western girl, attending a college in the east, becomes engaged to Harold Shaw, a young collegian.
13 October 1914
A Mexican leaves his wife and family with hunger staring them in the face to get a job on the "Rocking Chair" Ranch, so that he can supply them with life's necessities.
17 November 1914
Rose Boland, a pretty young ranch owner, quarrels with her foreman because she dislikes his attentions.
01 December 1914
Harding Martin and David Patrick are both desperately in love with Elsie Johnson. Each tries to gain some advantage over his rival.
10 November 1914
A Texas settler and his daughter, Sally, start on a journey in a prairie schooner after bidding farewell to Sally's mother and to Tom, the ranger, who is operating in the neighborhood on a lookout for cattle rustlers and illicit whiskey sellers.
16 February 1915
The great cowboy star takes over the reigns of a stranded production crew, offering the audience a rare insight into the filming of a typical comedy-Western.
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15 February 1915
When Mrs. Justwed receives a note from her mother telling her that she expects to arrive next day, her husband seems overjoyed, and says he intends to make her stay all winter.
07 April 1915
A man falls in love with a piano player and tries to woo her. A passerby hears a maid's music, fancies he's found his true love, and chats her up.
28 April 1915
A white slaver impersonates the heir to an English estate, but the rightful heir reappears and exposes the imposter.
04 July 1915
Emphasizing themes of female independence and the esteem due to the men serving in the armed forces, the plot involves a strong-willed young woman (Agnes Vernon) who defies her father in order to marry a soldier (Hobart Henly) instead of the well-to-do suitor preferred by her father.
22 April 1915
Once upon a time a professor ordered the wax figure of King Woof, a celebrated eastern potentate who had died from eating too much pomegranate juice and who had a reputation for making history.
26 February 1915
A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside.
29 March 1915
"If yew cum a lone to thee third bench from thee fontan yew will find sum one to chear your loneliness.
14 August 1915
Retired businessman F.G. Lawrence favors Philip Preston for a son-in-law; Mrs. Lawrence prefers Reggie, the Dainty Dude.
01 October 1915
Bruce Marsden, a former millionaire fallen on bad times, marries Helen Stanhope against her mother's wishes.
14 December 1915
Lord John, a detective novelist and the Marquis of Haslemere's brother, receives word that the stage adaption of one of his stories will not be performed because Roger Odell, a millionaire, has spoken against him.
15 December 1915
Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the credits; but since Ince was known far and wide as a glory-hogger, it's also possible that one of his talented lieutenants wielded the megaphone.
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