The District Attorney's Triumph (1910)
The District Attorney is a young man, alert, fearless and without an ounce of romantic sentiment in his make-up, just the sort of man to be attracted by a gentle, dreamy girl to whom King Arthur's knights are far more fascinating than the serge-coated men of to-day. To her the day of romance set with the passing of the bag wigs and knickerbockers: and when the District Attorney tells her of his love and asks her hand, she confesses that she likes him, but that she has her heart set on marrying a hero. The lover knows that he is no personage from a romantic novel, and is content to abide his time. He is busy with a murder trial and his eloquence and the careful preparation of his case bring about a conviction. Even in open court the ex-convict makes an attack upon the attorney for the people and is dragged away declaring that he will kill the official. There seems little likelihood that a man just convicted of murder can carry out such a threat, but the man escapes from his guards while being carried to the penitentiary where the death sentence is about to terminate his evil life, and the police are hurriedly dispatched to recapture him. Knowing nothing of the escape, the District Attorney takes the girl for a canoe ride, and when a storm comes up they seek refuge in the very hut in which the convict has found concealment. Taking a gun from the wall, the murderer is about to add to his heavy score, when he sees the police outside. A shot would bring them to the hut, and so, waiting until they have passes, the convict forces the young Attorney to enter the boat and follows after. With quick wit the young official overturns the boat, holds the captor's head under water until he ceases to resist, and then drags him ashore to turn him over to the police. He is not conscious of having done a brave deed, but when the girl reads the story she decides that, after all, there are heroes of to-day as brave as the ones who used to ride in armor in the good old days of romance.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Albert McGovern |
