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  • The Rough Neck (1916)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Rough Neck (1916)
Short | Short, Drama
John Calkins is a mercenary manufacturer of firearms. He has a daughter, Mary, and a son, Bobbie, who has graduated from Annapolis. The son leaves home after his furlough to join his ship. Larry Grady is a rough neck. His former employer ...See moreJohn Calkins is a mercenary manufacturer of firearms. He has a daughter, Mary, and a son, Bobbie, who has graduated from Annapolis. The son leaves home after his furlough to join his ship. Larry Grady is a rough neck. His former employer willed him a steam yacht on condition he use it to make his own living by chartering it. John Calkins hears through a secret channel that Luis Fernandez, a Santa Bana revolutionist, is in this country to buy arms. He meets Fernandez. Mary goes out for a row in the bay. Her boat is upset and she is rescued by Larry Grady. Her father and Fernandez have seen the accident and arrive just as Larry and Mary reach shore. The father rewards Larry with a $50 bill for saving Mary's life. Later Mary writes him a note and thanks him and also asks him to call. He does so but arrives when the Calkins are entertaining. In his ill-fitting clothes he does not appear favorable. In the meantime Calkins has landed an order from Fernandez for the firearms. On account of the embargo they decide to charter a yacht to carry the guns to Santa Bana. Accordingly they arrange terms with Larry, explaining to him that they want to use his yacht for a pleasure cruise, and telling him that Mary is going. Fernandez buys off Larry's crew and substitutes men whom he has fixed. Fernandez talks to Calkins, gets Calkins to invite Larry to go for a ride with him and Mary, and while they are gone, Fernandez with the bought crew smuggle aboard a number of rifles packed in mattresses. They start out. Larry is now much in love with Mary and Fernandez begins to show jealousy. Larry finds the rifles in a broken mattress. Approaching Calkins and Fernandez he tells them that it is just such men as you that complicate neutrality. This yacht goes no further; we are going to turn around and go back. The yacht is near the town in the Republic of Santa Bana where the arms are to be landed. Fernandez gets his crew drunk; they rush at Larry. Mary attempts to stop them; Fernandez seizes her in his arms. A fight begins, and Larry is knocked overboard. Fernandez orders his bought crew to keep the yacht headed for the town. Larry manages to swim ashore. He sights an American warship in the bay and signals them that Americans in the city are in danger from the revolutionists. Fernandez, as the yacht nears the town, again attempts to force attentions on Mary. Calkins tries to prevent it, but is knocked unconscious and bound up. Fernandez brings Mary and her father, now really prisoners, ashore. He asks Mary to marry him, telling her if she says "no," he will kill her father. In the meantime the Americans go to the rescue and we see Larry comforting Mary as the picture ends. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Melvin Mayo
Writer
James Douglass (scenario)
Producer
Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Jul 20, 1916
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Jul 20, 1916 (United States)

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