The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

2& ■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY The Sheriff gets his man. B lECAUSE of the repeated humiliations that he suffers on account of his son, Ernest, Sheriff Griffith decides that he will not run for re-election. When the lawless element finds this out they at once put up the name of Ervin Denny, a gambler and leader of a band of cattle rustlers. Al Gordon is a wealthy young ranchman who is in love with Alice Griffith, to whom it is very important that the losses stop. At a meeting that is held in regard to the coming election, the sheriff is about to be mobbed by the men who are working for the election of Denny, when Al comes along and puts a stop to the matter. Then the men see that if he is elected there will be observance of the law, so they make him run for the office himself. At last the election day arrives and in spite of the efforts of the gang to stuff the ballot box, Al is the winner when the final count is made. As he has promised to help reform Ernie, he appoints him a deputy sheriff in "The Greater Power" STORY of black sheep reformed. Bandits, cattle rustlers and a fighting sheriff make this Two-Reel Bison drama a play that radiates the red-blooded West. CAST. SherifiF Griffith Harry S. Griffith Mrs. Griffith Katherine Griffith Alice, their daughter Alice Beice Ernest, their son Ernest Van Pelt Ervin Denny Ervin Denneke Al Gordon Al Ernest Garcia the hope that the responsibility will make a man of him. But the election has attracted a great many of the surrounding ranchers to the town and the rustlers have taken advantage of this fact to make a raid. When the newly-elected sheriff hears of this he at once sends his deputy to get the criminals. But Ernie has formerly been a member of the gang and so is afraid to get them. When Al makes up his mind that he will go himself to get the crooks and finds that Ernie has been shirking his duty he is very angry and brings the young fellow back to the jail. Just as he is locking him up, Ernie turns on him and tries to get away. This is too much and Al loses his tamper and decides that he will teach Ernie a lesson. He takes oflF his coat and proceeds to give Ernie the worst licking that he has ever had. This at last makes the wastrel see the error of his ways and he confesses where the secret hiding place of the gang is. Then the sheriff sends out other deputies, and after a desperate battle the bandits are overpowered. Of course, the picture ends happily as Al marries Alice, and Ernie, who sees the error of his ways, is again made a deputy sheriff, but this time he makes good. GEORGE HERNANDEZ LOSES HIS TROUSERS. QEORGE HERNANDEZ, who plays one of the principal roles in the Bluebird Photoplay, "The Shriveled Soul," written and directed by Lynn Reynolds of Universal City, is essentially modest and particular about hiy appearance, and in addition admits that he has a sensitive skin. In one Bcene which was filmed in the Grand Canyon, Hernandez was supposed to be suspended on a rope over a chasm several hundred feet deep. Reynolds was not going to risk the life of his leading man, so he had a dummy built and put Hernandez' clothes on it while the actor remained behind a clump of bushes away from the camera. The constructor of the dummy did not make the backbone strong enough, and while suspended in the air it broke in two, with the result that Hernandez' trousers dropped several hundred feet and caught on a ledge some distance from the bottom. He had no others to wear, and it was not until the next morning that a cowboy and the company property man succeeded in rescuing the wearing apparel. Even at that Hernandez' troubles were not over. A cactus plant grew on the ledge and hundreds of the thorns adhered to the trousers. The actor had to wear the garment to finish the picture, and he declares that that night his wife stayed up several hours with pincers pulling cactas needles fnHn his flesh.