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A Bear of a Story
(1916) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Tom Mix

Cast: Tom Mix [Tom Wilson], Victoria Forde [Vicky Williams], Sid Jordan [Sid Jones], Betty Keller [Vicky’s chum]

The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by [?] V-L-S-E, Incorporated, or The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by William N. Selig. From a screen story by Tom Mix. / Released 19 August 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy: Western.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Tom, a cowpuncher, is engaged to marry Vicky Williams, a ranch girl. Vicky has a girl chum who owns a pet bear, and she tells Tom that the must get her a bear. With his friend, Sid Jones, Tom soon discovers bear signs. Tom enters a bear hole; the bear also enters, and Tom makes his escape just in time. Finally the bear is treed. The limb on which bruin is hanging is sawed off, and the bear falls to the ground, where it is lassoed by Tom and Sid. Vicky, in the meantime, has been playing with her girl friend’s pet bear and it bites her finger. When she sees Tom and Sid approaching with the bear, which they finally captured at the risk of their lives, she tells them she don’t like bears, doesn’t want one, and leaves. With an expression of “Can you beat it?” Tom and Sid fall to the ground in a faint.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animals: Bears

Listing updated: 15 August 2023.

References: Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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