Gold and Water (1913)
Harry Burton, a young planter, wakes up one morning to find his fruit frost-bitten; he is ruined. He determines to get out and on picking up a newspaper he reads that gold has been found in a certain region. He decides to start on a prospecting trip, so he sells his plantation and starts on his journey. Some days later he finds himself in the desert and stops at a desert well to refill his canteen. While there he meets a young girl, Alice Manning, who lives with her father in a cabin nearby. She tells him that the well in the only one in a radius of sixty miles, so Burton decides to camp near and try his luck in the hills close by. Alice and Burton meet several times and their friendship ripens into love. One day Burton discovers gold and shows a piece of it to Alice's father, Jed Manning. Jed, who has searched in vain for many years, is jealous and when Burton tells him that he is going to the nearest city to get some supplies, Jed waits until he has gone, then jumps his claim. Alice protests, but Jed, with some of his men, takes possession. Burton returns and discovers Jed has robbed him. He tries to take it back, but Jed and his men are armed and threaten to shoot him. Burton takes Alice into his confidence and shows her a plan whereby he hopes to regain possession of his claim. During the night he throws up an embankment around the well, and taking his rifle gets inside and awaits developments. Next morning one of the men arrives at the well with a pail to obtain water, but is warned off by Burton. The man goes to Jed and tells him what has occurred and Jed takes his two men and goes to the well. Under Jed's orders the two men attempt to rush the well, but Burton fires, wounding one of the men in the foot, and they have to retreat, with the wounded man. The next day Jed runs out of water and goes back to the well with Alice, who is carrying a jug to get a drink for the wounded man. Alice fills the jug with water and climbs over the barricade. She is seized by her father who takes the jug from her. Burton, from a distance, sees this, fires, and the bullet breaks the jug. Jed and his men are fighting with Burton, when the wounded man, whom they have left in the tent, becoming delirious, wanders onto the scene, raises his revolver and fires at Jed, wounding him. In the meantime, Alice has returned to the tent and discovers that the wounded man is missing. She immediately starts in search of him and finds him outside the barricade with her father, wounded. She calls for Burton; he comes to her assistance, and they take her father to their tent. Later all ends happily as Alice is the promised wife of Burton, and he and Jed are partners in the "Red Claim."
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| David Horsley | Producer |
