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Nugget Nell’s Ward
Also known as [The Widower]
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Willis Robards [Willis], Joseph Franz [Joe], Mrs. Joseph J. Franz [Nugget Nell], Edythe Sterling [Janie], Janie Robards [Janie, as a child], Arthur Allardt, [?] Walter L. Rogers?
[?] St. Louis Motion Picture Company and/or Frontier Motion Picture Company? production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Released 25 April 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Willis and Joe agree that they can’t be partners and rivals too, so Joe sells out. Willis, who is the one Nugget Nell cares for, strikes it rich. Later he is killed by an accidental fall. Joe, learning that his bill of sale has been lost, assumes ownership of the mine, which is now worth a fortune. Nugget Nell, who refuses Joe’s proposal of marriage, adopts Janie, Willis’s five year-old child. Fifteen years pass. Joe, rich, returns from the east. He meets Nugget Nell’s ward, now grown to womanhood, and soon wins her away from her fiancé, Arthur. Nugget Nell attempts to persuade her ward from marrying him, but in vain, and the ward elopes. Tucked in an old shoe Nugget Nell finds the bill of sale of the mine, dated fifteen years ago. With Arthur and the sheriff they give chase to the elopers, finally overtaking them, and the ward learning the evidence, decides that after all Arthur is the man for her.
Survival status: Print exists in a private film collection [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 26 June 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
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