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Mike Searches for His Long-Lost Brother
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by Allen Curtis

Cast: Max Asher [Mike], Harry McCoy [Jake], Louise Fazenda [Keyboard Annie], William Franey (Billy Franey) [Sure Shot Schultz], Bobby Vernon, Ralph McComas [the sheriff]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Joker Comedies]. / Released 10 June 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? To settle an inheritance, Mike goes west in search of his long-lost brother, Jake. Arriving in a frontier town, Mike makes an impression on Keyboard Annie, the telegraph operator. On the other hand, he gets in bad with the cowboys. The news is flashed through the town that Sure Shot Schultz, bandit, is in the vicinity. Mike is mistaken for the bandit; everyone he meets throws up their hands and insists upon being robbed. Later, Mike is captured by the outlaw himself. He forces Mike to rob the stage, unaware that Mike’s and Jake’s inheritance is aboard, guarded by their mother. But Mike escapes without finishing the job. Schultz moves to complete it, only to find that he is stealing his own money, for Schultz and the long-lost brother arc one and the same person. There is a pathetic reunion between mother and son. Mike arrives in the village and finds out that he held up the stage carrying his own money. The boys are about to lynch him when Annie goes for aid. The family is reunited, the inheritance saved and Mike is furnished with a wife in the person of Keyboard Annie.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 9 May 2020.

References: Website-IMDb.

 
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