On the Level
Rustler Pete Sontag kidnaps Merlin Warner after he kills her father. Pete, a drug smuggler who uses his saloon as a front, coerces Merlin though beatings to become the dancer Mexicali Mae. She meets and falls in love with morphine addict Joe Blanchard but Pete frames Joe for a murder that he committed, forcing Mae to hide Joe in a homestead in the hills. After many struggles, Joe is cured of his addiction and proposes to Mae. She accepts, but when his mother and fiancée Eleanor arrive, they offer her money to leave, Mae refuses the money but becomes convinced that she is not good enough for Joe and writes to him that she is returning to the saloon. Joe learning of his mother’s plot arrives at the saloon and in the resultant fight Pete is killed. Mae and Joe are reconciled.
Year: 1917
Genre: Western
Studio: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
Director: George Melford
Cast: Fannie Ward, Jack Dean, Harrison Ford, Lottie Pickford, James Cruze, James Pier Mason
Crew: George Melford (Director), Marion Fairfax (Scenario Writer), Charles Kenyon (Story), Percy Hilburn (Director of Photography), Roy Marshall (Assistant Director), Jesse L. Lasky (Presenter)
Runtime: 50 minutes
Release: Sep 10, 1917
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : lost film
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