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  • Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph (1916)
  • 50 min | Crime, Drama
Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph (1916)
50 min | Crime, Drama

"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged that he has almost forgotten how to get angry. One night the gaiety going on in Judge ...See more"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged that he has almost forgotten how to get angry. One night the gaiety going on in Judge Winters' home attracts him, and he crouches on the fire-escape to watch it. He becomes interested in the Judge, in his pretty daughter Peggy, in her cousin Flo, in Flo's admirer, the Count, and in Bob Ewing, a struggling young lawyer. Then he falls asleep on the fire-escape. Peggy is fascinated with the Count and decides to cut Flo out, if she can. She consents to meet him in the drawing-room after the household is asleep. Scarcely are they concealed in the window niche when the house is burglarized. "Frank the Mex" and "Lefty Jake," securing their booty, pass through Flo's room when Flo awakens and screams. A servant who runs to see what is wrong is killed, and the crooks escape through the window, where "Buttsy" is lying asleep. They roll him over into the room. "Buttsy" is arrested as the murderer. "Buttsy" finds himself suddenly famous. Women send him flowers. Great men argue about his case. The people in his home alley decide that he has more in him than they thought. Peggy, who was hidden in the other window and who knows that he is not the murderer, does not dare speak for fear of injuring her reputation. Bob Ewing takes up the case. He is sure "Buttsy" is not guilty, and finally makes Peggy tell what she knows. Her father, Judge Winters, makes her marry the Count. "Buttsy" is given a new trial and is released under a five-year probationary sentence for having committed perjury. He has "confessed" to the murder, delighted at having so much attention. Brought into prominence by "Buttsy's" trial, Bob is engaged by a firm of unprincipled men to condemn and take over for a reservoir some land belonging to Judge Winters and some farmers in his old home town. The two crooks, "The Mex" and "Lefty," are hired, and bind and gag the Judge when he tries to fight the matter in the town council. Peggy and the Count, who follow, are about to meet the same fate, when "Buttsy" intervenes. He has left the city because it is not interested in him except as a criminal. The Judge accuses him of being mixed up in the conspiracy and his long-buried spark of anger flames forth. He puts up the fight of his life. He and the Count turn on the hobos, and "The Mex," the slayer of the servant, is mortally wounded, confessing just before he dies. Flo gives Bob a piece of her mind. She tells him exactly what she thinks of him for having turned traitor to her uncle's interests in such a cowardly fashion. She rouses the sleeping manhood within him. He goes to the council meeting and argues, not against the Judge, but for him, winning the case. Flo forgives him, and they are married. Peggy cannot help admiring the Count's valor when she sees him fighting the crooks, and thereafter the marriage is a real one, as for "Buttsy" he sees again the girl known in his tenement home as "The Pest." Now she is a lovely young woman. She has become a trained nurse and he asks her to be his own private nurse as long as he lives. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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William Nigh (scenario)
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May 22, 1916 (United States)

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15 cast members
Name Known for
William Nigh
Buttsy Gallagher Buttsy Gallagher   See fewer
Jules Cowles
Michael Gallagher (as Julius D. Cowles) Michael Gallagher (as Julius D. Cowles)   See fewer
Roy Applegate
Judge Winters Judge Winters   See fewer
R.A. Bresee
Gus Ewing Gus Ewing   See fewer
Robert Elliott
Robert Ewing Robert Ewing   See fewer
Martin Faust
Count Carl (as Martin J. Faust) Count Carl (as Martin J. Faust)   See fewer
David Thompson
Detective Cody Detective Cody   See fewer
Victor De Linsky
Lefty Jake Lefty Jake   See fewer
Frank Montgomery
Frank the Mex Frank the Mex   See fewer
Marguerite Snow
Peggy Winters Peggy Winters   See fewer
Florence Vincent
Florence Maddern Florence Maddern   See fewer
Cecelia Griffith
Mrs. Maddern Mrs. Maddern   See fewer
Cita Cameron
The Pest The Pest   See fewer
Mrs. William Nigh
Sloppy Sue Sloppy Sue   See fewer
Arthur Cadwell Jr.
Little Boy (uncredited) Little Boy (uncredited)   See fewer
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