The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

38 THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY "Killed In Self Defense"— the secret cloud over the Sheriff's life. See "The Guilty Trail" CAST Art Somers Jack Perrin Grace Corliss Louise Lorraine John Corliss C. W. Herzinger Aaron Rasp Jim Corey ^RT, a cowboy at large, gallops into the town of Oasis to find that a hot political fight is in progress. Aaron Rasp is trying to defeat the election of John Corliss for sheriff. The old town marshal is recognized as a fearless officer and it is for that reason that Rasp and his henchmen want to render him powerless. Over John Corliss, the marshal, hangs a secret fear. Years before, in another part of the west, he killed a man in self defense. Only Rasp knows that only self defense actuated him to kill and Rasp plans to use his knowledge of the killing to defeat Corliss and wreck his life. While Corliss is being abused by Rasp in the latter's office, Art meets Grace, his daughter, and falls in love with her. Hearing the story he determines to save Corliss. Rasp demands that Corliss send his daughter to him as a price for silence. Against Corliss' will the girl goes to the man and saves herself from his advances by sheer strength. THE SECRET FEAR Rebuked by the girl, Rasp determines to get even with her through her father. He decides to defeat his political ambitions by making known the face that years before Corliss killed a man. The killing was in self defense as the man had attacked Corliss, and Rasp knew this to be the truth. He sends a letter to the district attorney of the town in which Corliss formerly lived and from which he fled after the shooting affray. Art overtakes the messenger with the letter, carries through a daring holdup of the stage and returns the incriminating missive to Corliss and the girl. Together they are able to break the power of Rasp in the towTi and Corliss is elected sheriff of the county when the annual election is held. In helping Corliss, Art is thrown more and more in the society of the girl and they fall in love. When the celebration of the election of the new sheriff is over, another celebration is held announcing the engaerement of Art Sonjprs and Grace Corjigs^ >rL"THE DIAMOND QUEEN" t4 (y/V/VeKSAl. S£/il/ll. "THE DIAMOND QUEEN" Episode No. 12 "The Kidnapping" CAST Doris Eileen Sedgwick Benson Al Smith Bruce George Cheseboro Zimba Al Smith Zeidt Frank Clarke Martin Harvey Alfred Fisher Aline Earle Josephine Scott Benson holds the gun on Bruce, using Doris as a shield, Zimba's foes, in the outer room, overcome him and throw him headlong from the top of the stairs. Zimba lies apparently dead. Watching his chance, Bruce leaps upon Benson when the latter's attention is momentarily distracted by Doris's revival. But in the fight, Benson's men reinforce him and Bruce is overpowered. Benson, devining the secret between Bruce and Doris, decides to put Bruce to a fiendish torture before her eyes, figuring that Doris wil reveal her secret of the diamonds rather than see the man she loves suffer. Reporting to Zeidt, the diamond king, Benson tells him of his scheme, and Zeidt impatiently reminds him that the ninety days given the trust to answer Doris's ultimatum are fast speeding by — that there is no time to lose. Aline Earle, helps Bruce and Doris to escape from the water front shack and all misunderstandings between them are cleared up. Aline falls sick and is taken to the county hospital where she is visited by Doris and Bruce. Leaving the hospital, they are attacked by Benson and his men who carry Doris off in a car and leave Bruce, stunned lying in the roadway. In the car in which she is being kidnapped, Doris, gagged with a shawl, hears one man say to another (Benson): "Weston? — yes — but I leaned a bit too heavy on the sap — I'm afraid he's done for!" And back in the street of the accident, a fast-gathering crowd finds Bruce lying where he had dropped, apparently dead. Life Of Circus Infant Saved By Joe Martin "A Monkey Hero" Two-reel Universal-Jewel Featuring JOE MARTIN 'J'HE manager of Cheatem's Circus is seen by Joe Martin taking a bag containing $5,000 from the office safe. Before he can get away with the money, however, Joe Martin changes the bags. When the manager discovers the trick he plans to steal his employer's baby and hold the infant for ransom. While he is riding down the road wth the baby on the seat beside him in a buggy, Joe Martin dashes alongside the carriage on the back of a pony and snatches the baby away from the manage!-. He returns the baby safely to its parents. Everyone leaves the house to go to the circus and little Jackie starts a fire which quickly spreads through the building. Joe Martin sees the smoke and goes for his animal friends. He sends the watchdog for the owner of the house, and has the elephant haul the fire hose to the house and direct a stream of water into Jackie's room. Joe Martin climbs up the drainpipe, and, taking the baby in his arms, drops to the back of his elephant ally 9nd saves the life of the infant.