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Mr. Paganini
Also known as [Mister Paganini]
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Wray Physioc (Wray Bartlett Physioc)
Cast: Jack Drumier [Mister Paganini, the blind violinist], Mary Malatesta [Marietta Johnson], Joseph McDermott [Tom Evans], Ivan Christy [Shakespeare George], Walter Woodin [Stinger Johnson]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Roy Norton. / Released 24 August 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The blind violinist had so endeared himself to the inhabitants of Willow Creek that they called him affectionately “Mister Paganini.” One day the town of Fourflush wrote requesting the loan of Mister Paganini for a gala occasion. In the Fourflush saloon he was regaling himself with a glass of water when a local bad man rode through and started to shoot up the town. Mister Paganini stumbled through a doorway into an inner room, beyond which three newcomers were drinking in private. Without meaning to listen, he heard fragments of conversation which shook his confidence in humanity. The three ruffians were planning to jump an unfiled claim, and that claim was the property of his friends, Tom Evans, Shakespeare George and Stinger Johnson. Mister Paganini determined to act. He feared to trust anyone, so he must go through with it himself. He, a blind man, unfamiliar with the trails, must get back to Willow Creek before dawn and warn his friends. Undaunted by the terrible ordeal, he turned his back on Fourflush and set out. The next morning Marietta Johnson found him lying exhausted in the shallows of a stream and summoned her husband. The story told, Tom Evans and his partners armed themselves and sat down to await the claim jumpers, while Mister Paganini and Marietta rode to file the claim. Never were rogues more strangely checkmated.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 10 June 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.
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