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The Answer (1915)
Short | Short, Drama, Western

The Answer (1915)

Short | Short, Drama, Western

Jim Foster with his wife and little girl live happily in a small western town. He gets in an argument with Morgan at the local saloon and they part enemies. Shortly afterwards Morgan is met by a man to whom he owes money and in a quarrel ...See moreJim Foster with his wife and little girl live happily in a small western town. He gets in an argument with Morgan at the local saloon and they part enemies. Shortly afterwards Morgan is met by a man to whom he owes money and in a quarrel he is killed. Hearing the struggle, Foster runs to the scene and is found bending over the body of his enemy. He is dragged from his wife and child and on circumstantial evidence is given twenty years. Some time later John Dunlap, millionaire, is held up by a band of outlaws and left on the desert with his automobile disabled. He wanders for two days and two nights and when he is nearly dead sees a light in the distance. Dragging himself over the intervening space he comes to a little house, and looking through the window, sees Foster's wife and little girl Clara. Believing him to be a tramp, the woman gives him food, and going to the closet, takes one of her convict husband's coats and places it around him. She gives him shelter for the night and the next morning after the unknown millionaire has poured out his thanks for saving his life, directs him to the nearest town, where he telegraphs his bank. He returns to his home, and once there forgets the two people, who have saved his life in the desert. Meanwhile Foster breaks jail. He is closely pursued and, after many miles of weary chase, finds himself in the wealthy section of a neighboring town. The Dunlaps have just finished dinner and the millionaire is telling his guests of the time he was lost in the desert. He goes to the closet to show his guests the coat the woman gave him, and finds crouching there Jim Foster, the escaped convict, who has entered by an open window. He begs Dunlap to hide him but the good citizen is about to give him up when the hunted man sees the coat and recognizing it, grabs it. Hurriedly he tells Dunlap the coat is his and his wife and child are waiting for him to come back. Dunlap's heart is deeply touched, and remembering the debt he owes to the family of the unfortunate man, Dunlap hides Foster and sends his pursuers on a false scent. After the hue and cry has died down, Dunlap gives the man employment, and changing his name, Foster sends for his wife and child. There is a happy reunion. Sometime later the sheriff, caught on the desert, takes refuge in a deserted cabin and finds the skeleton of a man with a note written in blood, long dead, telling of his having killed Morgan. Foster is then exonerated. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Norbert A. Myles Jim Foster Jim Foster See fewer	The Daughter of Dawn (1920)
Lucie K. Villa Mrs. Jim Foster Mrs. Jim Foster See fewer	The Higher Impulse (1914)
Clara Horton The Foster Child The Foster Child See fewer	The Girl from Outside (1919)
Fred Hearn John Dunlap (as Fred Hearne) John Dunlap (as Fred Hearne) See fewer	The Dark Star (1919)
Lindsay J. Hall The Murderer The Murderer See fewer	The Hermit's Secret (1915)

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