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Jim’s Reward
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Bertram Bracken
Cast: Henry King [Jim Dalton], Dolly Larkin [Mary Porter], Joseph Holland [Tom Manley], Buster Emmons (Marion Emmons) [the boy]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. Scenario by Wilbert Melville. / Released 19 July 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Jim Dalton and Tom Manly love Mary Porter, a town belle. She refuses Jim and gives her love to Tom. Jim, heartbroken, decides to seek his fortune in the west. Arriving there, he takes up a claim. Mary, who has married Manly, speedily repents of her choice, for he turns out to be a gambler and drunkard. One day during a violent quarrel between the two, Manly strikes Mary, who, in falling, hits her head against a table. Believing her dead, Manly takes their little son and flees the town. He finally gets to the border end of civilization and joins a wagon train which is about to cross the great divide. Mary is convalescent in the home of her parents, to whom she has returned. The wagon train stops one night to make camp. The boy wanders away from the camp and is lost. Before the little fellow can be located the occupants of the train are compelled by an Indian attack to abandon the search for the missing boy and fight for their lives. The train is wiped out, the sole survivor being the little boy who has saved his life by wandering away. During this time, Jim Dal ton, whose mining experiments have not been successful, has determined to commit suicide, hut is stopped by the arrival at his cabin door of the wandering boy. Jim takes the child in and determines to keep him. Three years later, Mary, who has had no word of the fate of her husband and child, is appointed postmistress of Twin Oaks, the settlement nearby Jim’s cabin and where his mail is delivered. Arriving there to assume her duties she finds her lost boy and girlhood lover and all ends happily.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 April 2020.
References: Website-IMDb.
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