The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "The SherifiF's Oath." Two Reel Western Drama. Featuring Hoot Gibson & Josephine Hill. CAST. Jim Morraine "Hoot" Gibson His Father Arthur Mackley His Mother Martha Mattox Mary Anice . Josephine Hill Her Father Jim O'Neal Bart Hawkins Bert Frank Crowfoot .......William Harrison JIM MORRAINE, newly elected sheriff of Tenstrike county, calls on Mary Anice to ask her to maiTy him. He meets her father, who, learning his mission, orders him off the place. Jim's father volunteers to go and see Anice. Meanwhile Bart Hawkins, Jim's rival, has also been kicked off the place by old Anice, for the same reason. Bart's Indian sei-vant, Crowfoot, is gathering firewood in the ravine which separates Anice's cabin from Bart's. When Old Morraine asks Anice why he objects to Jim, Anice insults him and the two men come to grips. Morraine pulls his gun and fires at Anice who is standing on the brink of a steep slide. Anice, startled, by the shot which misses him and goes through Crowfoot's hat, steps back and tumbles down the slide. He is stunned. Morraine thinking he has killed the old man, resolves to make a get-a-way. Anice comes too, and struggles to his feet, but Bart who has seen the whole incident, sees a way to get rid of Anice and calmly shoots Anice dead. Crowfoot has seen both incidents. Jim, as sheriff, is brought to the scene of the murder. He knows that his father has been to see Anice, and suspects him. He goes home and finds his father's gun with one sheel spent. Old Morraine make no attempt to conceal his action from Jim. Jim, however, holds to his oath and arrests his father. His mother casts him off. The verdict of the jury is "Guilty" and the sentence is death. Jim, takes off his badge and resigns his office. Bart kicks Crowfoot out, on the day of the hanging, and in revenge he goes to Mary and tells her that Bart Hawkins killed her father. Telling Crowfoot to wait in her cabin Mary finds Jim and teUs him. Jim phones to the Govemor, but he is on an auto trip. Jim tells the sheriff to arrest Bart and tells Mary to get Crowfoot while he rides to intercept the Govemor for Morraine's pardon. He overtakes the Govemor, dropping down a cliff into his machine, but the govemor does not believe the story. Jim holds him up and tells him he has to get to the jail and stop the hanging or he will get to the other world first. They drive to the jail, arriving twenty minutes before the time set for the hanging. But Crowfoot cannot be found and the Governor says he cannot interfere. Bart who saw the Indian in Mary's cabin has become suspicious, so he questions the Indian and finding that he has seen the murder, he shoots him. The clock is one minute befoi-e the fatal hour, when Crowfoot, just able to crawl, gets to the jail and tells his story before he dies. Morraine is dragged from the scaffold and saved while Bart is held for his double crime. Jim and Mary are united. "Good Little Brownie." Two Reel Century Comedy. Featuring Brownie the Century Wonder Dog. Merta Sterling, Cliff Bowes and Virginia Warwick. Directed by Billy Watson. (Copyright 1920 by Century Comedy Company J^APPY HENRY was in love with Virginia Vamp, who was by the way, considerable vamp. Henry took her to the beach one day, to hit the high spots for a nickle, but Virginia grew tired of him, and when Near Bear Billy, whose stand was just crowed with girls, called her, she left Henry flat. But Henry, nothing daunted stole a counter and set it up right in back of Near Beer Billy's key of beverage. He put up a sign, two glasses for a nickle and tapped Billy's keg of Near Beer. Everything was going beautifully until Lota Fat asked for a pickle sandwich and he had to steal one of Billy's. But Billy's partner, Brownie, caught him in the act and led Henry a merry chase all over the place, finally making him take to the open sea. Henry told his two pals that under a certain umbrella on the beach was the girl he meant to make his wife. But they chose the wa'ong umbrella and kidnapped Lota Fat, putting her in a big potatoe sack. After much trouble they ai-rived at the Justice of the Peace's house and forced him to marry Heniy and what was in the potatoe sack. Just as the ceremony was finished, who should appear but Virginia Vamp and Near Beer Bill, to congratulate him. When Henry saw what he had married, he went out like a light. HARRY CAREY in "RIDERS OF VENGEANCE" story by G. B. LANCASTER Directed by JACK FORD PRISCILLA DEAN in "PRETTY SMOOTH" by BAYARD VEILLER Directed by ROLLIN STURGEON MONROE SALISBURY in "THE SLEEPING LION" by ELLIOT J. CLAWSON Produced by RUPERT JULIAN MARY MacLAREN in "THE WEAKER VESSEL" by ELMER ELLSWORTH Directed by RUPERT JULIAN HARRY CAREY in BRET HARTE'S "THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT" Directed by LYNN REYNOLDS HEDDA NOVA in "THE SPITFIRE OF SEVILLE" by JOSEPH FRANKLIN POLLAND Directed by GEORGE SEIGMANN MONROE SALISBURY in "THE MAN IN THE MOONLIGHT" by ELLIOTT J. CLAUSON Directed by PAUL POWELL MARY MacLAREN in "THE PETAL ON THE CURRENT" bv FANNIE HURST Directed by TOD BROWNING J