The Moving Picture Weekly (1919-1922)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY James J. Corbett in "Cast Adrift" Episode 1. THE MIDNIGHT MAN" cast. Bob Gilmore Jas. J. Corbett Nell Kathleen O'Connor Henry Morgan (Nell's Father) Jos. W. Girard John Giimore Frank Jonasson Martha Gilmore.Georgie Woodthorpe Hargreaves. Wm. Sauter gpike Noble Johnson John Zafara Orral Humphrey Steve Arnold Joseph Singleton DOB GILMORE, gentleman and athlete, is spending the evening with his chum, Fred Hargreaves, of New York, and other friends at the Washington Athletic Club. There is drinking and reveling and Bob has forgotten his parents are entertaining for him that same evening, until reminded by a phone call. He dashes off in his roadster and reaches his home just in time to overhear two business associates of his father, John Gilmore, making disparaging remarks about his mother, Martha Gilmore, because of dowdiness. There is a fight in which Bob cleans up the two and some others who try to interfere and the party is broken up. Gilmore, an unscrupulous promoter, takes Bob to task, accuses him of being drunk, and ends by disowning him. Bob, having packed his things, returns to the library in time to overhear the detectives accusing Gilmore of forgery. Thinking only of his mother, Bob goes to the wall safe, gets the cash, and, entering the library, takes blame for the forgery to shield Gilmore. They try to arrest Bob and in the fight which follows he escapes. In New York lives Henry Morgan, known as a society man, an owner of a fashionable jewelry store. He worships his only child, Nell. Morgan leads a double life and, unknown to Nell or the rest of the world, is the brains of a gang of crooks, led by a man known as Spike. The next day, following his escape, Bob meets his friend, Hargreaves, by appointment and turns over his personal fortune, securities, to be negotiated. He refuses to explain his connection with the fogery, the papers having carried the story. Telling Hargreaves to dispose of the securities, he says he will draw on him. Bob steals back to his home to bid his mother farewell, and overhears a conversation which shows he is not the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore. He also hears Gilmore trying to force Martha to turn over her private fortune to him. Then Bob takes a hand and wrings a written confession from Gilmore, that he, Gilmore, committed the forgery. With the parting warning that he will turn the confession over to the proper authorities if Gilmore ever mistreats Martha again, Bob leaves with a peculiar ring, with a heavy top set with jade, the only clue to Bob's real identity. In the meantime in New York, John Zafara has visited Morgan's jewelry store, seeking trace of a certain antique ring. As Bob takes the ring from Mrs. Gilmore, she calls his attention to the letters "Mor" and "New Y " and says she believes his father was a rich New Yorker. Just then detectives trailing Bob arrive, and he makes a thrilling escape on one of their motorcycles, the rest in full pursuit. As Bob reaches the railroad station a freight train is passing the loading platform. He drives his motorcycle up the platform and rides into the open door of a box-car. The motorcycle speeds on out the other door but Bob grasps the sill and drops to safety in the box-car. Spike and his gang are in the same car, and before Bob is aware of their presence he is set upon. In the fight which follows the crooks, who are on their way to rob a safe, strip Bob of his coat and valuables and hurl him out as the train crosses a bridge. Elmo Lincoln in "Into the Chasm." Episode 13. "ELMO THE MIGHTY. CAST. Lucille Gray Grace Cunard Capt. Elmo Armstrong . ..Elmo Lincoln Rawden Ivor McFadden Steve Blighton Frederic Starr Granville Sear Rex DeRoselli Mrs. Armstrong Virginia Craft Wong Chai Hong Gray's Cook Madge Hunt The Mystery Man James Cole \X/HILE Armstrong was being slowly drowned by the rising tide, as he lay tied to the huge rock on the shore of the bay, Lucile was being tortured to surrender information concerning the black bag containing the evidence that Blighton was so anxious to regain concerning his guilt in the governmental plot. The Ringo Range Ranchers who had been scouring the hills for the man who had shot their "boss" at the Ringo Ranch rescued Armstrong, but Lucile was carried away by the Blighton gang. She escaped from them, however, rode back to the ranch, and induced the old "boss," badly wounded though he was, to get out the old stage coach and drive to the next village. The Blighton gang allied themselves with an adjoining ranch which was at war with the Ringo Rangers. Lucille was SYNOPSES OF "CAST ADRIFT," "INTO THE CHASM" AND "THE FIGHTING SHERIFF." attacked while in the coach and became once more captive. Armstrong, with the help of the Mad Menace, pursued the gang. As they attempted to cross a bridge suspended across a chasm, supported by nothing but ropes, the enemy on the other side shot and broke the ropes in two, and Armstrong was dashed down the sides of the cliffs of the chasm. "The Fighting Sheriff" Two-Reel Western Drama. CAST. Mary Adams Magda Lane Jim Wilson Pete Morrison Edgar Duke Lee Andy Andy Waldron £)ESERTED for days at a time through the mysterious disappearance of her husband, who fails to explain his absences, Mary Adams is nearly distracted. Big Jim Wilson, the sheriff and a girlhood sweetheai't, assures her of his protection. Sheriff Jim swears to exterminate a band of daring1 cattle thieves. But the chief rustler escapes the posse. The brother of one of the dead cattle thieves threatens to avenge his death. He rides to the home of the chief rustler— who is Edgar Adams — ransacks the house and ties Mary Adams to a chair. Mary learns the true character of her husband. Jim, the sheriff, rescues her from the intruder, but Mary conceals her new sorrow from him. Jim lifts her to her feet and in a moment their love for each other is revealed. They decide never to meet again and Jim goes in pursuit of the cattle rustler. Edgar arrives home. He admits everything and pleads for another chance. He tells Mary to start across the desert in a wagon and he will join her on the other side. Sheriff Jim learns of Adams' flight, and at last overtakes and captures him. He starts back with his prisoner but the water supply is exhausted. He encounters Mary Adams, in a similar situation. The wife refuses to return without her husband and the sheriff will not permit her to remain while they go on. At last Edgar Adams steals from the prairie wagon what he believes is a water-"bottle but in reality is "snake cure," a deadly poison if taken in an overdose. He empties the contents of the bottle, and falls dead. The barrier is removed, and Jim, taking Mary in his arms, starts home.