The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

38 —THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY ■May 7. 1921 GENTLEMAN BANDIT SAVES GIRL FROM OUTLAW GANG "The Outlaw" CAST Dandy Dan Jack Perrin Ethel Benton Louise Lorraine Red Connor Jim Corey Buster Walter Wilkinson Uncle Otto Nelson J)ANDY DAN is the leader of a band of outlaws who have always managed to elude capture. An unquenchable desire for adventure has led Dan from the straight path of law and order and he finds the means of satisfying his craving in outwitting his pursuers. He meets Ethel Benton, the niece of a wealthy ranch owner, and wins her gratitude when he saves her and her three-year-old brother from possible death in a runaway. Shortly after fate makes him the instrument in saving the life of Buster again, when the youngster has fallen over a cliff in his play and lodged in a projecting bush on the cliffside. Each time he has risked his own life in saving the others. Ethel's admiration and gratitude is unbounded. He hides his true identity from her, but she tells him that "one as noble and brave as you could never be anything but good." Dan is impressed by Ethel's purity and goodness and longs to be what she thinks him. Plot Against Leader Red Connor is a member of Dan's band of outlaws who is jealous of his leader and covets the leadership for himself. He discovers Dan's infatuation for Ethel and uses it as an instrument to serve his purpose of deposing Dan. He breeds dissatisfaction among the other outlaws and persuades them to join him in a scheme that will encompass Dan's downfall as leader and also win them a big stake. Ethel is lured to a deserted shack where the band has been in hiding, thinking Dan has been hurt and is possibly dying. She is made a prisoner. Learns Dan's Secret Ethel is horror-stricken when she learns that Dan is the leader of the outlaws, and in the bitterness of her disillu-sionment turns on Dan and scores him roundly. Dan sees the others are watching for any overt movement on his part and is forced to dissemble to gain time. Red suspects that Dan is playing a double game when he apparently falls in with the scheme to hold Ethel for ransom. He attacks Ethel to make Dan show his hand. Dan turns on him furiously. Red protests the girl belongs to him since he got her there and appeals to the gang for support. They favor Red. Dan turns on them furiously, tells them they will have to "get" him before they get the girl. Taken by surprise by Dan's action the band start for him. He hurls Red at them, knocking a couple of them down. A wallop on the jaw stops the other man momentarily. Dan grabs Ethel and rushes her out of the door, turning to meet the others as they start for him. Jack Perrin as "Dandy Dan," the outlaw. In the fight that follows, Red slips out with one of the men to recapture Ethel. Dan disposes of the other two and starts in pursuit. He shoots the outlaw with Red, but is in turn wounded by Red. Slumped in the saddle, his gun gone, he urges his horse on and overtakes Red. He hurls himself on Red and the two men fall to the ground battling. Ethel's uncle has become alarmed at her absence and starts a search for her. They arrive on the scene as Red is about to make his getaway from Dan who has become weakened from his wound. Later Dan is shown the way to a new life by Ethel who asks to be allowed to help him forget the past. NO WEDDING BELLS FOR ZULU CHIEF— "Zulu Love" One-reel Star Comedy Featuring EDDIE BARRY pEENEY has been living at his aunt'.s home while she was traveling in the South Seas. When he learns that she is returning from the Zulu Islands he decides to transform her home into a Zulu Island house. He places spears, arrow heads, shield? and skulls on the walls of the house and places the skins of wild animals on the floor. Feeney persuades Eddie, a friend, to dress up as a Zulu chief for the homecoming of his aunt. When the aunt arrives she has a du.sky maid of ihe South Sea island with her. The girl, who resembles an animated cartoon, immediately falls on Eddie's neck. The aunt decides to have the couple married and brings a minister to the house. Feeney tells the aunt that the chief is already married, but she say.s that it is customary for the Zulu ^•hif^fs to have three or four wives. This was too much and Eddie t''ke« off his disguise and flees. The jilted Southern beauty goes outside where .'^he sees the colored gardener and it is a case of love at first sight. International News No. 31 Los Angeles, Cal. — Auto classic winner sets furious pace, "^mmy Murphy averages 109 miles an hour in annual speed contest. In the Public Eye. — General Leonard Wood sails to study conditions in Philippines — Seattle, Wash. Melissa. Texas. — Trail of ruin in path of Southern tornado. Forerunner of storm which swept a score of States, wrecks many homes. (Omit from Boston and Philadelphia.) Oakland, Cal. — Western crews in neck-and-neck race. University of California oarsmen best Washington by lust five feet. Norfolk, England. — Mooring mast .for air giants proves success. Anchored dirigibles saved from gales which heretofort have wrecked aircraft at rest. Nice. France. — A flight over Nice. Air views of the famous French resort which is surpassing its pre-war record for gayety. Near Balikesri. Asia Minor. — Turks in desperate battles in Smvrna. Trench warfare resumed as Greek army halts advance of Mustapha Kemal's troops.