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Shorty’s Strategy
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Francis Ford
Cast: Jack Hamilton (Shorty Hamilton) [Shorty], Richard Stanton [the gambler], Gretchen Lederer [Madge, the gambler’s sweetheart], Milton Ross [Landers, the ranchman], Fanny Midgley [Mrs. Landers], James A. Morley [Dick Landers, their son], George Larkin
New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by [?] Mutual Film Corporation? [Broncho]. / Produced by [?] Thomas H. Ince? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The third film in the first series of Shorty Hamilton films.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Ranchman Landers, owner of the Three Bar Ranch, sends his son, Dick, and Shorty, a friend, to town for money for the payroll. A gambler, with his sweetheart, Madge, sees Dick enter the bank; he waits outside. Shorty leaves Dick for a few minutes to go to the shoemaker. Madge approaches Dick and bumps into him as he is reading a letter. She apologizes and immediately begins to encourage an acquaintance. Dick invites her to have a bottle of beer and also into the dance hall for a dance. Madge tells Dick that the gambler will not allow women to gamble at his table, and asks him to bet some money for her. He loses and before he is aware of it he has bet the payroll. Shorty, in order to get the money back, gets a bottle of whiskey, follows the gambler to his room, and at the point of a revolver makes the gambler drink the whole bottle. Shorty puts him on a burro and turns the burro loose. Dick’s father and the cowboys, who have become worried over their non-appearance, find Shorty and Dick asleep in a room at the hotel. Shorty explains that they could not go home in the dark, after having whispered to Dick not to worry as the money is under his pillow.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 March 2020.
References: Spehr-American p. 254 : ClasIm-224 p. 42 : Website-IMDb.
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