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Only a Sister
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] William F. Haddock?
Cast: [?] Francis Ford? [John], Edith Storey [Molly]
G. Méliès production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. Cinematography by [?] William Paley? / Released [?] 2 or 21? February 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? If John was half the man that Molly is, she and her father would have been a great deal better off. Molly by her industry and ambition has saved up five hundred dollars to go to college and complete her education; she is very proud of her achievement. John is a young fellow with extravagant idle notions, who refuses to hold his jobs as a skilled mechanic and insist upon spending his time in rambling and dissipation. Molly loves her brother and tries to induce him to mend his ways and make a man of himself. Molly’s father, who is editor of the local paper, starts a journalistic campaign against the gamblers, and they decide to get square with him by ruining his son John. They draw the boy into a game, win his money, and get him to forge a check on the bank of San Antonio. The leader of the gang of gamblers starts early the next morning to get the check cashed. John hears of it, and in remorse attempts to kill himself, but is prevented doing so by his sister Molly, to whom he confesses his wrongdoing. She takes her college money, jumps on her horse and reaches the bank in time to deposit the money in her brother’s name, saving him from arrest and imprisonment. Her brother wakes up to a sense of his smallness, resolves to make good, gives Molly his note for five hundred dollars, and starts at work again to redeem the past and make a man of himself.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 18 February 1911, page ?] Some sort of symposium of the kindliness of sisters with reference to their erring brothers seems to have been produced of late. It is always interesting to see a scapegrace reform after ruining his father and breaking the hearts of his mother and sisters. Fortunes may be regained and broken hearts will heal under proper care, while hitherto unconscionable scamps can ultimately become men. If the kindly offices of a sister are interesting and are done in a sufficiently picturesque section of the country the resulting picture has some claims to attention. All these features are present in this one, hence it is moderately pleasing.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: USA: Texas: San Antonio
Listing updated: 25 May 2024.
References: Thompson-Star pp. 162-164, 229 : ClasIm-226 p. 54 : Website-IMDb.
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