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Sunlight and Shadows (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

Sunlight and Shadows (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Betty and her brother, Harry, live with their invalid mother in a little hut, away up in the Northwest. They are very poor. The mother is ill, practically dying. Betty is hungry. One day she runs down the road to the village grocery store,...See moreBetty and her brother, Harry, live with their invalid mother in a little hut, away up in the Northwest. They are very poor. The mother is ill, practically dying. Betty is hungry. One day she runs down the road to the village grocery store, just to look at the provisions. And the rows of jam, and crackers and cheese and things look so good that she asks the grocer to trust her. He refuses because he knows she has no prospect of ever getting any money. A tall mounted policeman, Paul Vernon, is also in the shop getting his provisions. He sees the crestfallen hungry little girl and because she is good to look at and because he has a big heart, he buys her a large basketful of food and sends her home happy. On her way home Betty dances along gaily until she hears Paul coming after her. Then her one thought is that he wants to take the food away. She breaks into a wild run. He finally catches up with her. She begins to cry and pleads with him to let her have the food. He laughs at her fears and tells her he only wanted to say that they would meet again. She drops him a little bob courtesy and runs home. She brings in her basket and shows it to mother. Betty doesn't know that her mother is too ill to care about food, but that she deeds medicine and wine. The boy, Harry, knows, however, and he blames himself for being so worthless and no-account that he cannot support his own mother. He gathers together all his forces in one supreme effort and stumbles out of the shack to get help for his mother at any cost. He steals an expensive saddle, sells it and with the money buys medicine. But too late, in his absence his mother has died. The owner of the saddle traces it to Harry and Paul is sent to arrest him. The boy hides upstairs when the girl hears Paul coming. Paul comes in and at once recognizes Betty. This makes his task doubly hard. She tells him her brother is gone. He sees her raise her eyes to the loft, so at the point of his gun he brings Harry down. Harry puts an arm about his sobbing sister and then Paul sees the body of the mother. For the sake of the little girl alone in the world, he refuses to take Harry away. He leaves him with Betty. Later he returns the money to the saddle owner and the matter is patched up between them. Then Paul sends Harry and Betty away to another town, where the boy is to have a chance to start all over again. But before he helps little Betty into the big Prairie schooner, he tells her he will come for her soon and that she must wait for him. And so she raises her lips to his and receives her first kiss. The sun goes down and the wagon ploughs its way across the prairie, the boy with his face set toward the west, while the girl, also hopeful, looks back once or twice toward where Paul is, and overcome with sweet memories, she rests her cheek against her hand as the picture fades out. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Betty Gray Betty Betty See fewer	His Last Dollar (1914)
Harry Spingler Harry Harry See fewer	From the Valley of the Missing (1915)
Paul Panzer Paul Vernon Paul Vernon See fewer	The Black Book (1929)

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