Out of the Drifts

Out of the Drifts

1916 · 50 min · Romance

An Eastern drifter stakes a claim near Boiseville but spends his nights gambling away his gold. Moll, one of the owners of the gambling hall, tries to help him quit the habit. When is neighbor, Peter Gardner teams up with Moll’s partner, Dick Weed, to try and steal the claim, Moll (who is secretly the drifter’s mother) and Gardner’s daughter, Kate, who is in love with the drifter, attempt to stop them. Gardner nearly succeeds in winning the drifter's claim in a card game, but an amnesiac named Crazy Oby suddenly regains his memory, recognizes Gardner as the man who robbed him years ago, and shoots him. Before dying, Gardner confesses that Oby is Kate’s real father. With the villains defeated and the truth revealed, the drifter and Kate find happiness together and prepare for their wedding.

Directed by J. Searle Dawley · Written by William H. Clifford

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Marguerite Clark Elise
Jack W. Johnston Rudolph
Albert Gran Father Benedict
William Courtleigh Jr. George Van Rensselaer
Ivan F. Simpson Martin
DeWitt Lillibridge Reggie Featherstone
Kitty Brown Cleo
Florence Johns Trixie
Robert Conville Heinrich

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