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  • An Alaskan Interlude (1914)
  • Short | 11 min | Short, Drama
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An Alaskan Interlude (1914)
Short | 11 min | Short, Drama
Ed Fisher's wife was very discontented. The great bleak wilderness of that Northland seemed to have entered into her soul. She hated the cold, the vastness of it all and the awful loneliness and she longed for the warmth and the bustle of ...See moreEd Fisher's wife was very discontented. The great bleak wilderness of that Northland seemed to have entered into her soul. She hated the cold, the vastness of it all and the awful loneliness and she longed for the warmth and the bustle of her own country so many miles away to the southward. Ed Fisher realized his wife's discontent and was grieved by it, but there was nothing he could do. His salary as collector of customs was too small to have allowed him to save anything in that land of inflated prices. One afternoon, after the wife had been particularly sorrowful over the prospect of remaining in Alaska, Ed left several thousand dollars of the government's money in her charge and set out on a long trip. Shortly after he had gone, a man tottered up to the cabin and begged the woman to give him shelter. Mrs. Fisher, fearing for the funds in her charge, at first refused, but the man's state was so evidently critical that she was unable to resist his appeals for long. The exhausted miner staggered into the hut, threw himself down and fell into a deep sleep. All that night the woman with pistol in her hand, stood guard over the money. Toward morning she heard a noise. Careful listening convinced her that somebody was trying to break into the shack. Choosing the lesser of two evils, she awakened the exhausted miner and begged him to help her. He readily assented and they waited together in the darkened shack. The door creaked slowly open and a masked figure entered. A revolver shot rang out and the figure sank to the floor. The woman sprang to his side and pulled off the mask. It was her husband. Despairing of any other solution, he had taken this means of getting the money which would enable him to carry out his wife's wish. Luckily, Fisher was not seriously wounded. The old miner who had readily grasped the situation, introduced himself as Klondike Smith, the richest man in the Northwest. When he offered Fisher a ridiculously large amount for the shack, the couple could only give him their heartfelt gratitude. A month later, they were back in the land of their hearts' desire. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
George Lessey
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George Lessey (scenario)
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Updated May 9, 1914
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May 9, 1914 (United States)

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