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A Western Redemption
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Broncho Billy Anderson (Gilbert M. Anderson)
Cast: Broncho Billy Anderson (Gilbert M. Anderson) [Tom Perkins], Arthur Mackley [John Harris], Julia Mackley [Mrs. Harris], Ryan Sherwood (John B. O’Brien) [?] [Steve Wilson or Steve Ray]?, Louis Morisette [the stage driver], Fred Church [the deputy], Brinsley Shaw, Harry Todd, Augustus Carney
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Broncho Billy Anderson (Gilbert M. Anderson). / Released 21 October 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Tom Perkins, a Chicago youth, is arrested, charged with being one of the carbarn bandits, to whom is attributed a series of bold robberies. The disgraced parents also suffer for their son’s crimes, the elder Perkins being thrown out of a job, and they are forced to leave their rented cottage, on account of the bad character of their son. Perkins and his wife then go west to begin life anew. Tom, liberated from prison, goes west and becomes a bandit. He and his pal, Steve Ray, rob an express office in a general store, which is in charge of Tom’s father, though the fact is unknown to Tom. Later, when he discovers that he has robbed his own father, he forces Ray to accompany him to the sheriff’s office, where Tom confesses and asks that they be made to pay for their crime. In later years, when Tom is again released, he seeks out his parents, and having given proof of his reformation, obtains their blessing.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 1 July 2020.
References: Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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