The Moving Picture Weekly (1917-1919)

20 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY Service Page for "Marked Men" AT A GLANCE. SUBJECT — "Marked Men." LENGTH— Six Reels. PREVIOUS HITS— "Ace of the Saddle," "Rider of the Law," "The Man Who Wouldn't Shoot," "Roped," "Hell Bent," "Bare Fists," etc. STAR— Harry Carey. DIRECTED BY— Jack Ford. STORY BY— Peter B. Kyne, originally appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, as "The Three Godfathers." SCENARIO BY— H. Tipton Steck. SUPPORTING CAST— J. Farrell McDonald, Joe Harris, Ted Brook, Winifred Westover and Charles Le Moyne. LOCALE — A penitentiary, a western dancehall and the limitless desert. TIME— A decade ago. THUMB-NAIL THEME— The story of a man who was sent to prison on circumstantial evidence, escapes and finds happiness through saving a baby who is intrusted to him after a series of heart gripping adventures in the desert. ADVERTISING PUNCHES. 1— The fact that Peter B. Kyne's story "The Three Godfathers" was read by millions in the Saturday Evening Post. 2 — The drawing power of Harry Carey, which increases with every Universal photodrama. 3— The beautiful pathos of thi-ee outlaws finding a baby alone on the desert and appointing themselves godfathers over the tiny bit of humanity so strangely entrusted to their care. 4 — The brilliant scenes showing life in the mining camp dancehalls, in which hundreds of players were used. 5 — The delightful comedy relief throughout particularly when the three outlaws try to nurse a newborn baby. 6 — Some of the most beautiful scenery of the west ever shown on the screen. 7 — The graphic direction of Jack Ford. : 8 — The world-wide fame of the author, Peter B. Kyne. By PETER B. KYNE. Directed by JACK FORD. CAST. Harry Harry Carey Placer J. Farrel McDonald Tom Gibbons Joe Harris Tony Garcia Ted Brooks Ruby Merril Winifred Westover Sheriff Gushing Charles Le Moyne THE STORY. J-JARRY and his pals are serving time in prison under suspicion of being implicated in a train robbery. A desperate attempt to break jail is effective and after a thrilling ride across country and running battles with prison guards they separate and meet again later in a Western mining camp. In the meantime Harry has met and fallen in love with a g'irl whom circumstances has driven to seek employment as waitress in a dance hall. It is this girl that warns him that the Sheriff suspicions him. Then his old partners appear and plan a bank robbery. As they had previously saved his life he felt that he should he'lp them in spite of the girl's pleading. The robbers flee to the desert with the officers in hot pursuit. After wandering for days they come across a wagon containing a woman and a new born babe. The woman in dying requests them to be the three godfathers of the child and bring it up as good as they are themselves. After days of suffering and fierce sandstorms two of the men pass away and Harry manages to reach civilization again with the baby in his arms. And his girl is waiting for him, as is also the Sheriff. But the baby saves Harry from punishment. A bible which Harry had carried with him out of the desert shows the Sheriff that the baby is his niece. When Harry reaches the jail he is handed a letter from the Governor containing a full pardon. Advertising Display Lines No man who wouldn't fight for him ; no girl he couldn't kiss — that's Harry Carey, the Universal star, in "Marked Men." "Marked Men," Harry Carey's latest Universal photodrama, was filmed from a Saturday Evening Post story by Peter B. Kyne. Peter B. Kyne, the world-famous novelist, wrote "The Three Godfathers," Harry Carey's Universal photodrama of love and battle, now called "Marked Men." A giant cactus formed the cross before which the three godfathers swore to cherish the baby they found on the desert, in "Marked Men." What would you do if you found a three-day-old baby alone on the desert? See what Harry Carey did in "Marked Men," his latest Universal photodrama.