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  • Finding the Last Chance Mine (1912)
  • Short | Drama, Short, Western
Finding the Last Chance Mine (1912)
Short | Drama, Short, Western
Jean Dyer, an old one-legged hermit who lives in a mean abode on Lonely Mountain, has the villagers all guessing as to where he gets his gold, for whenever he comes to town he spends freely. The villagers appoint Jimmie, a genial cowboy, ...See moreJean Dyer, an old one-legged hermit who lives in a mean abode on Lonely Mountain, has the villagers all guessing as to where he gets his gold, for whenever he comes to town he spends freely. The villagers appoint Jimmie, a genial cowboy, to visit the old man, get him "full," and pump him as to the location of the mine. Jimmie wins the old man's confidence and liking, but in a terrific storm that comes up, a tree crashes through the roof and mortally wounds Dyer. His last words are an endeavor to locate the mine so that Jim might have the benefit. He dies before he finishes. The news of the death stirs all the villagers to an organized hunt for the gold mine, but their efforts are in vain. Jim buries the old man respectably, and when a few days later he visits the grave, finds there Dyer's old burro which had been his only chum. An idea comes to Jim. He puts on the old hermit's wooden leg, mounts the burro in the old man's way, kicks him with the wooden leg, as was Dyer's wont, and is led to the very entrance of the mine. The villagers would share it with him, but "Findings is keepings" is the unwritten law of the west. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Gaston Méliès
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Gaston Méliès
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Updated May 9, 1912
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May 9, 1912 (United States)

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