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The Tomboy
(1915) United States of America
B&W : [?] Short film?
Directed by William Wolbert
Cast: Jackie Saunders [the mine owner’s daughter], Henry King [?] [the mine superintendent]?, Daniel Gilfether [?] [the mine superintendent]?, Edward Standing [the villainous worker]
The Balboa Amusement Producing Company production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by E.D. Horkheimer and H.M. Horkheimer. / Released 10 July 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
[?] Comedy or Drama?
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Bob Seaton, paymaster of the Tomboy mine, is in love with Dot Cory, daughter of the owner. Buck, one of the foremen, admires Dot, but she repulses him. One Day Buck forces his unwelcome attentions on a miner’s daughter and Bob gives him a sound thrashing for his effrontery. This angers Buck, and he and some of his accomplices plan revenge on Bob. Accordingly they hold up the paymaster and drag him to a deserted house in the woods, where he is securely bound and gagged. After a hot game of tennis with her brother Jim, Dot decides to don his riding outfit and take a spin in his roadster. While spinning over the mountains at a good clip, the car skids and is smashed. Dot being thrown out and rendered unconscious. Regaining her senses, she goes for help and while passing the apparently deserted house, hears voices within. She peers through a crack in the wall and sees her lover bound and gagged. She then rushes back to her car, but is unable to fix it. The conspirators accost her in her plight and she is carried off on horseback to another deserted house and locked up. She finds herself a captive and learns, to her horror, that snakes infest her prison, and throws Jim’s cigarette case, which she finds in the coat pocket, at the reptile. Later her captor comes back for her and is bitten on the leg, but fails to notice the wound. He is taking her to the prison where Bob is kept when the venom takes effect and he is thrown from his horse. Dot then wheels the mount and dashes for town where she telephones her brother of her plight and that of Bob. Jim jumps into the Cory touring car, in which his mother has just returned, and gathering help, goes to Bob’s assistance and releases the paymaster from his captors. The men at the mine become uneasy at the absence of their pay envelopes and Bob, Dot, and the rescuing party receive a hearty reception when they come into camp. Bob and Dot are married later, but she doffs her brother’s riding suit and dons the “conventional white.”
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 29 August 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
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