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The Gambler’s I.O.U.
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Charles H. West (Charles West) [Dick Smith], Barney Furey [Jim Bevins], Harry Carey [Dave Dawson], Claire McDowell [Nell, Daddy Wilson’s daughter]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 12 April 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? At the assay office in town, Jim Bevins turned his gold into dollars, then sat into a game because he felt lucky, and broke the gambler. On the way home two observers of his luck held him up. Badly wounded, he contrived to reach the mine and died in his partner’s arms. Dick Smith found the gambler’s I.O.U. in his pocket and kept it because he hoped to “meet up with the cuss some day.” Drifting into the oil fields, he went to work for Daddy Wilson. He did not know that the old man. hard up, had borrowed $300 from that fellow Dawson who was hanging round his girl. He learned that fact when Dawson, furious because Nell turned him down, demanded instant payment of the note. Then Dick learned that this was the Dave Dawson whose I.O.U. he had found on Jim’s body. Grimly he forced payment of the I.O.U. and returned the money to the gambler in payment of daddy’s note. And he was gloriously surprised to learn that Nell loved him.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 8 January 2025.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
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