Hang on Cowboy
Black is a human vulture who preys on innocence, so when he selected a day to lure Bess to the city it was coincident that he should select the very day on which Jack, the cowboy, decided to go to town for a ring and marriage license for his sweetheart, Nan. Both men, intent on their particular errands, ordinarily should never have met at all had not coincidence stepped in and caused their paths to cross. Jack, being of the free and open-hearted nature, attended strictly to his business and everybody's else with whom he came in contact. So as soon as it dawned on him that he had a duty to perform, as well as to get the ring and marriage license, right manfully did he go about it. He came through the danger zone with his life, leaving a trail of excitement behind him, a soda emporium that needed repair, a bootblack stand with Italians ranged in front frozen with fear, a police station astonished and its clerks terror-stricken, a fire department that to a man didn't know whether to laugh or be angry, a wrecked joint in the Tenderloin, the four men who had trapped Bess jailed in jig time, and the thoroughly repentant and frightened Bess clasped in her mother's arms. Jack rode to the ranch with the ring, a somewhat mussed marriage license, a broad and battered grin, and the declaration that he had had "a bully day."
- Released
- 1916
Details
Release year: 1916
Storyline
Black is a human vulture who preys on innocence, so when he selected a day to lure Bess to the city it was coincident that he should select the very day on which Jack, the cowboy, decided to go to town for a ring and marriage license for his sweetheart, Nan. Both men, intent on their particular errands, ordinarily should never have met at all had not coincidence stepped in and caused their paths to cross. Jack, being of the free and open-hearted nature, attended strictly to his business and everybody's else with whom he came in contact. So as soon as it dawned on him that he had a duty to perform, as well as to get the ring and marriage license, right manfully did he go about it. He came through the danger zone with his life, leaving a trail of excitement behind him, a soda emporium that needed repair, a bootblack stand with Italians ranged in front frozen with fear, a police station astonished and its clerks terror-stricken, a fire department that to a man didn't know whether to laugh or be angry, a wrecked joint in the Tenderloin, the four men who had trapped Bess jailed in jig time, and the thoroughly repentant and frightened Bess clasped in her mother's arms. Jack rode to the ranch with the ring, a somewhat mussed marriage license, a broad and battered grin, and the declaration that he had had "a bully day."
Top credits
- Romaine Fielding — Jack
- Vinnie Burns — Bess
- Jack Lawton — Black
- Eleanor Mason — Nan