Revised list of high-class original motion picture films (1908)

TRAGEDY. G. D. 1700. FATALITY. Price, $50.88. Approximate Length, 424 feet. A family of three, consisting of father, mother and child, is seen at a noon-day meal. Ere they have finished, a friend of the husband's comes in and joins them at the meal. The visitor persuades the husband to join him in a gambling game. The wife tries very hard to persuade the husband not to give way to the solicitations of the false friend. Finding her efforts in vain, she goes out, leaving the couple to themselves. The husband informs his friend of his inability to obtain money and is persuaded to rob the wife. They leave together for the gambling house. The wife returns and, finding her husband gone, together with her savings, follows him and arrives while he is gambling her hardearned savings away. She urges him to come home, but he repulses her. A quarrel arises over the cards, during which the husband gets the worst of it and is carried home, accompanied by his tempter. The false friend makes advances to the wife, who repulses him, and he goes off vowing vengeance. A scaffold with workmen is now seen, and during a quarrel and fight the husband is thrown off the scaffold by the false friend. He is taken up and is carried away to the hospital, where he accuses the other of throwing him to his death. The stricken man, before dying, receives the forgiveness of his wife. G. D. 1701. DRAMA IN A SPANISH INN. Price, $48.48. Approximate Length, 404 feet. An hotel keeper and his wife are seen quarreling over the receipts of the day. The wife asks the husband for money and is repulsed and thrust away, while the miserly husband gloats over the money. As he is thus occupied a Spanish gentleman on horseback and benighted, rides up to the inn and asks his hospitality, which is given. In paying for his lodging the gentleman draws out a large quantity of gold, at the sight of which the landlord's eyes glisten with envy. The guest is led to his room by the landlord and goes to sleep. Not so the landlord, whose cupidity has been aroused by the sight of the gold, which he determines to obtain. He is about to put his scheme into execution when he is confronted by his wife, who begs him to desist from evil doing, and she is again thrust away. The inn-keeper now goes into the guest chamber and robs his victim, who is awakened and struggles with the robber and tries to regain his money. The guest is overpowered and mortally wounded. The wife flees from her husband^and the house, determined to bring him to justice. The husband remains to dispose of his victim, and using the horse of his guest to aid him in overtaking her, he goes in pursuit of his wife. A mad chase is then seen, but is won by the wife, who enters a police station. On seeing that he is outdone, the landlord returns to the inn and barricades the door. The officers go with the woman and force the door of the inn. They find the inn-keeper trying Jo hide the gold. After a struggle he is taken off to prison, and the wife gives thanks for her deliverance. G.D. 411. THE UNDEBGBADS. Price, $54.48. (Oxford Life.) Approximate Length, 454 feet. The opening scene is that of the study of a student at college. Several friends are being entertained and liquor is being indulged in freely. Soon they go out, and on the street they indulge in innocent hilarity, which soon develops into a free-for-all fight, and after the battle we see our heroes racing down the street at a breakneck pace, thus leaving their antagonist behind. Returning to the room all indulge in more liquor and cigars and then leave to 84