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Her Grandparents
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Frank Powell

Cast: Dorothy Gish [Dorothy], W.E. Lawrence [Bob], Richard Cummings [the drummer]

Majestic Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Released 4 May 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a country town, is the sole support of her aged grandparents, with whom she lives. Her sweetheart, Bob, is the boy-of-all-work in the same store. To the Emporium comes a flashy drummer from the city to sell the merchant a bill of goods. He meets Dorothy, and she is impressed with his good clothes and city manners. Her sweetheart, Bob, lectures her for allowing the drummer to become familiar, and they quarrel but the quarrel is soon forgotten and difficulties adjusted. In the course of time, the drummer returns on another of his periodical visits. He finds occasion and opportunity to picture to the impressionable girl the allurements of the city. Against her better judgment, she agrees to go with him to the city, where he promised to get her a position in one of the big department stores. She agrees to meet him at the railroad station at train time that night. Evening comes, and she goes to the station, arriving ahead of the drummer. While here waiting for him, she falls asleep and in her dream imagines dire consequences to her grandparents arising out of her support being withdrawn. Her nightmare awakens her and she is about to return home when the drummer arrives. Angered at her change of mind, he attempts to use force, and tries to drag her aboard the then waiting train. Her sweetheart in shadowing the drummer, arrives in the nick of time. A fight ensues in which the drummer is worsted and glad to escape on the moving train.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 May 2020.

References: Weaver-Twenty p. 145 : Website-IMDb.

 
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