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  • Melita's Ruse (1912)
  • Short | Short, Western
Melita's Ruse (1912)
Short | Short, Western
In a western saloon, Pedro and the boys are playing cards and drinking, when one cheats and there is a gunfight. It all happens so quickly that no one knows who to blame until Pedro, knowing that he shot at least one man, steals quickly ...See moreIn a western saloon, Pedro and the boys are playing cards and drinking, when one cheats and there is a gunfight. It all happens so quickly that no one knows who to blame until Pedro, knowing that he shot at least one man, steals quickly from the place and rides furiously off. The others see him go and at once decide he started the fight and is responsible for the probable loss of life. They mount their horses and pursue him. Meanwhile Pedro has succeeded in reaching a spot not far distant. Here he meets his sweetheart, Melita. They both hear the approaching pursuers, and Melita, fearful for her lover, jumps on the same horse and they ride away. Reaching a barn, Melita changes clothes with Pedro, and after telling him to hide in the barn she rides away to mislead the pursuers. They follow her, thinking her Pedro, but at last find out their mistake when they overtake her. Forcing her to go with them, they search farther and find Pedro in the barn just after he has subdued a young girl and her mother who had entered to collect eggs. Pedro is imprisoned in the sheriff's house as there is no jail in town. Melita frees him in a novel way and bids him fly to Mexico. The sheriff suspects Melita knows Pedro's whereabouts, and she, offering to show them where Pedro lives, leads them there, knowing he is even now on his way to Mexico. Returning to town in disgust with Melita accompanying them, they are just in time to see, with the aid of a field glass, Pedro crossing the boundary in the valley below. A week later Melita receives a letter from Pedro asking her to join him that the Padre may make them one. 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 Jan 22, 1912
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Jan 22, 1912 (United States)

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