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Cruel, Cruel World! (1914)
Short | 10 min | Comedy, Short

Cruel, Cruel World! (1914)

Short | 10 min | Comedy, Short

The widow and her only child, May, are in destitute circumstances. Outside their home winter rages. Old Myzer Lee has long coveted the widow's acres, and comes to foreclose. He is struck by the marvelous beauty of the fair May. He bargains...See moreThe widow and her only child, May, are in destitute circumstances. Outside their home winter rages. Old Myzer Lee has long coveted the widow's acres, and comes to foreclose. He is struck by the marvelous beauty of the fair May. He bargains with the widow: "Deliver your child to me, and I tear up the mortgage!" When things look bad, Joel, the young man who loves May, comes to her rescue and they hide in the snow. Silas, the widow's husband, has overheard the proposed bargain. He has visions of a life of ease. But the widow's pleadings finally touch his heart. The price of mutton soars fabulously. The widow sees a chance to raise money to settle the mortgage. She sends Silas to town with their two sheep. He sells them at an amazing figure, but he has been shadowed by the crafty Myzer Lee, who plans to rob Silas. The chance comes when Silas stops by the wayside, after a bracer, to sleep. With drunken cunningness, he first hides the money in a hole in the tree trunk. Myzer Lee, who has not witnessed Silas' hiding of the money, now searches the sleeping man to no purpose. Enraged at being foiled, he kicks Silas. Silas reaches home and the widow is prostrated at the apparent loss of the money. Myzer Lee and his hirelings capture May and Joel. Joel is bound fast to the self-same tree wherein Silas hid his roll. May manages to escape her captors and rushes home. Myzer Lee and his hirelings follow close on her heels and start to evict the widow and her family. Joel, in his mighty struggles to escape, tears the tree up by its roots and with it still bound to his back, staggers to the rescue. Silas recognizes the tree bound to Joel, finds the money and saves the home. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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William A. Seiter Actor Actor See fewer	The Cheerful Fraud (1926)