Volume II: Filmography

THE OUTLAW'S NEMESIS

June 21, 1914 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel (996 feet)

Character: Western drama-comedy

Director: James Durkin

Assistant director: Jack Sullivan

Cast: J.S. Murray (Jim Reynolds, sheriff), Mayre Hall (Grace, the sheriff's daughter), Boyd Marshall (George Carter), Jack Sullivan (Jack Burns, his pal), George Harris ("Red" Anderson, bandit)

Location: Ogdensburg, New Jersey

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, June 20, 1914:

"Jim Reynolds, the old sheriff of Tucson County, had been trying for months to capture 'Red' Anderson. When George Carter, a young rancher, came to persuade the old man to give his blessing to his marriage with Reynolds' daughter, Grace, the sheriff testily replied: 'Young man, if you've got the stuffing in you, you'll lasso that confounded bandit and bring him to me first.' Carter did his best. But is wasn't one of those battles one could fight out in the open. Grace saw this. She realized that Anderson must somehow be duped and trapped. But her lover, while there wasn't a braver or stronger fellow in the county, was no adroit tactician. Being a woman, she had all the subtlety he lacked; so she decided to take a hand. Grace disguised herself as an Eastern tourist and pathetically lost herself in the hills. There she encountered the outlaw. He wasn't so much bad as he was romantic. He would have been a great hero in the days of Robin Hood. A damsel in distress made a mighty appeal to him, and, throwing caution to the winds, he escorted the sheriff's daughter to the settlement. Reynolds decided that so clever a girl deserved the man she wanted. As for the bandit, he went free after all."

REVIEW, The Bioscope, October 15, 1914:

"A sufficiently interesting Western drama, dealing with the rather mean trick by means of which a young woman captures a notorious bandit and incidentally gains her father's consent to her marriage with the man of her choice. The film is notable for its marvelous photography, which is of a consummate perfection, unusual even for the Thanhouser Company."

REVIEW, The Morning Telegraph, June 21, 1914:

"The sheriff tells the young man who wants to marry his daughter that when he brings Red Anderson into camp he can do so. The girl herself does the trick, secures the bandit's release, and then convinces her father that any girl who can do that ought to get the man she wants."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, June 27, 1914:

"A mixture of comedy and 'Western' stuff; but it is not convincing. Thanhouser is so strong in refined Eastern comedies and dramas that it seems a pity for them to make this sort of stuff. We don't dare call it a success, in spite of the fact that there is a good laugh or two in it. Photographs seem poor."

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