When the Cartridges Failed (1914)
The most unfortunate thing about modern civilization is the incontrovertible fact that it is only skin deep. A pleasant and necessary attribute of our ordinary well-fed lives, it is rapidly cast aside after a few days of hardship and necessity. Give a man twenty-one meals a week, and he will be a Chesterfield of Chesterfields; give him six, or possibly five, and he will divest himself first of his overcoat and then of civilization. This was the trouble with Ed Huggins. To be sure, he still had his twenty-one meals a week. In addition, he had a comfortable position with the Globe Construction Company. But both of these were overshadowed by the fact that he owed more money than he could ever possibly pay. When temptation presented itself in the shape of an opportunity to leave the country and his debts behind him, and to start life anew somewhere else with a good -sized bank account, it found him a ready listener. Every Saturday, as Huggins knew, the Globe Construction Company sent $26,000 from its city office to pay the men out at "The Works" in East Belmont. This money was ordinarily taken by an armed messenger in an automobile and delivered to Bob Graham, the chief engineer at the Works. When the regular messenger fell ill, Eleanor Cooper, a stenographer at the city office, offered to take his place. After some thought, the president consented. Before she started, Eleanor was given a revolver. Only two partridges could be found to put in it. Huggins slipped out ahead of the girl and succeeded in making a slow leak in the tire of the automobile. Then he hurried out toward East Belmont on a streetcar. As he hoped, the tire gave out on a stretch of rough road in the woods, half a mile from the Works. Eleanor, knowing it was only a short distance, decided to walk. Shortly after she started, she was attacked by the desperate Huggins. Eleanor took refuge in a deserted shack. How the wily Huggins succeeded in making her fire the two precious shots, and exactly what part Billy and Bob Graham played in her rescue, we shall leave to this exciting film to explain.
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GenresDrama
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ben F. Wilson | Director |
| Ben F. Wilson | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Ben F. Wilson | |
| Gertrude McCoy | |
| Joseph W. Girard | |
| Andy Clark |
