Kid Canfield (1912)
Learning the gambler's art as a boy, Kid Canfield practiced it on his younger brother and sister. This aroused his father to a righteous indignation, the culmination of which was the driving of the boy out into the world. He started his career in a western town, using his art with such adeptness as to make his reputation as a card shark and monte-man, notorious throughout that section. Ten years later, he bloomed forth as the keeper of one of the most widely known gambling dens in the country. The paraphernalia in evidence in this haunt of vice exerted its fascination on the youth and the adult alike, drawing them to the consuming flame of their own destruction. Into this mad vortex of the human passions came a youth. He was clever, and luck was with him; then the Kid marked him as a victim. We behold the hellish apparatus secretly prepared, and we see the fiendish operations carried out to their horrible conclusion. Black despair overtakes the miserable youth, and self-destruction is the penalty he pays for his folly. Clutched in the hand of the lifeless victim was a photograph. Canfield loosened the fingers of the dead youth, but his eyes falling on the picture bulged without horror. The face was that of his mother! The boy, cold and stiff, whose young life was blasted out so cruelly, was big own brother! Recovering from the terrible realization that he was, indeed, a fratricide, the notorious Canfield registered a solemn oath before high heaven to forsake his evil ways and devote his entire life to the reclamation of the youth of the land he had corrupted. Thus comes the grand finale to this o'er true tale. Here we behold, in the second reel, the exposition and correct manner of manipulation of the various devices used by the gambling profession. This is a most fascinating part of the subject, morally, educational and instructive, in the sense of telling us and warning us of the pitfalls and slimy traps of the gilded dens of vice which abound around us.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ulysses Davis | Director |
| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Kid Canfield |
