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The Highwayman's Shoes (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

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The Highwayman's Shoes (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

When Lord Mayor Harper's wife dies, he grows bitter against their second born child, a boy. An old servant is bribed to carry the child away and desert it in the forest. An old witch brings this baby to her home. A slipper is left on the ...See moreWhen Lord Mayor Harper's wife dies, he grows bitter against their second born child, a boy. An old servant is bribed to carry the child away and desert it in the forest. An old witch brings this baby to her home. A slipper is left on the child's foot. This she treasures, and later has the boy wear it around his neck. Twenty years elapse. In a diary which Lord Mayor Harper has kept remains an entry of his act. The boy makes his living by singing. The captain of the King's Guards openly insults the boy one day and flaunts his ignorance of his parents in his face. Jasper, the boy, stabs him. Returning home he demands to know of his foster mother who his parents are. The King's Guards follow him to the house, but he escapes over the roof, makes a daring leap to his horse's saddle and rides off. He comes to a stone marking the grave of the famous highwayman, Dick Mount. Possessed of a natural adventuresome spirit, he decides to become a highwayman himself. In his wanderings Jasper encounters the daughter of Lord Mayor Harper and makes her change horses with him. Meanwhile, Lord Princeton, a neighbor, who has been refused the hand of the girl for his son, carries away the diary which tells of Harper's crime. Time elapses and a price is placed on Jasper's head. In trying to see his foster mother he is threatened with capture. In escaping he finds the diary which Princeton had lost. He has two other encounters, one with Princeton's son, who is forced to change clothes with him, and one with Harper's daughter. Princeton's son is captured as the highwayman and rushed to the stocks. His father finds him and berating the crowd for their stupidness, has them release the boy. Meanwhile the real highwayman enters Harper's house. He is surprised by the daughter. Soldiers surround the house and in trying to escape he is mortally stabbed. She hides him in a secret opening in the fireplace. In groping about, his hand strikes something and he finds it is the mate of the shoe which the old foster mother had given him years before. The old witch is brought in and while they question her Jasper tumbles out from the hiding-place and falls at their feet with the shoe clasped in his hand. He gasps out his story to the heartbroken father and sister. They tearfully gather about him as he breathes his last, a highwayman, but a gentleman. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
O.A.C. Lund Jaspar - the Highwayman Jaspar - the Highwayman See fewer	Together (1918)
Alec B. Francis Lord Mayor Harper Lord Mayor Harper See fewer	Oliver Twist (1933)
Barbara Tennant Lord Mayor Harper's Daughter Lord Mayor Harper's Daughter See fewer	The Infidel (1922)
Will E. Sheerer Lord Princeton Lord Princeton See fewer	Graft (1915)
Julia Stuart The Old Witch The Old Witch See fewer	Life's Whirlpool (1916)