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Shorty Turns Judge
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Francis Ford
Cast: Shorty Hamilton [Shorty], Enid Markey [Mrs. Jim Walls], Jack Nelson [Jim Walls], Margaret Thompson [Nell Bond], [?] Jerome Storm?
New York Motion Picture Company production; distributed by [?] Mutual Film Corporation? [Broncho]. / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. / Released 15 July 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The seventh film in the first series of Shorty Hamilton films.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Jim Walls, a ne’er-do-well, deserts his wife in the east and drifts west. His wife disguises herself as a boy and follows him. She obtains a position as piano player in the concert hall and saloon where Jim makes his headquarters. She finds him one evening making love to Nell Bond, Shorty’s sweetheart, and shoots him from ambush. Shorty, who has been looking for Nell rushes to the dead man, just as the men from the concert hall come to find out the cause of the shot. Shorty is accused of the crime, but makes a getaway and lives with an Indian. He finds Judge Folsom suffering from a rattlesnake bite; he takes the judge to his dugout where the Indian nurses him back to health. Shorty to play a joke on the boys, disguises himself as the judge, presents his letter of introduction to the sheriff, who has been having trouble with some of the cowboys, and puts them in jail. Shorty takes his place on the bench and finds that the sheriff is guilty instead of the boys. He sentences him to six months on the rock pile. The boys elect Shorty as sheriff.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 27 March 2020.
References: ClasIm-224 p. 43 : Website-IMDb.
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