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Shorty’s Trip to Mexico
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by [?] Jay Hunt and/or Francis Ford?
Cast: Shorty Hamilton [Shorty], Kisaburô Kurihara (Thomas Kurihara) [Pedro Sanchez], Lewis Morrison [General Carramba], Ramona Radcliffe [Anita]
New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by [?] Mutual Film Corporation? [Broncho]. / Produced by [?] Thomas H. Ince? From a screen story by Richard V. Spencer. / Released 3 June 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
[?] Comedy: Western?
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The offer of Pedro Sanchez, the border smuggler, was seized upon by Shorty as a means of repairing a damaged heart. If he were to help Pedro smuggle arms into Mexico, he might manage to renew his affair with Anita. He had just come through a sickening experience. It was pay day and he had come up to town with the boys for a good time. The only woman in Dead Tree whom Shorty would look at, being Bessie Gordon, the dentist’s wife, he had gone to the doctor’s office roaring with toothache. And Gordon had insisted upon relieving him of a perfectly good molar. Afterwards the boys had treated him to the consolations of whiskey, and Pedro winning his co-operation, Shorty and the Spaniard rode off toward the border. Meanwhile, Anita and her father had refused to hand over their stock of horses to the Mexican general, Carramba, who had trussed them up in their own hacienda, placing a guard over them, and ridden away. On a mission for Pedro, Shorty stopped off to see his sweetheart. There he discovered the plight and outwitting the guard, cut their bonds, hurried father and daughter into his automobile and drove to safety across the border.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Mexico
Listing updated: 7 September 2023.
References: ClasIm-224 p. 42 : Website-IMDb.
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