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The Two Cowards (1913)
Short | Short, Drama
Joe Wilkins and Jim Foster arc partners in business. Joe is big and robust physically. Jim is the opposite. They love Constance Hope. Both men head the Commercial Trust Company and nothing comes up to mar their friendship until one day ...See moreJoe Wilkins and Jim Foster arc partners in business. Joe is big and robust physically. Jim is the opposite. They love Constance Hope. Both men head the Commercial Trust Company and nothing comes up to mar their friendship until one day they both meet Constance on the street. She and Jim walk off together, while Joe goes to fulfill a business engagement. Joe finds Jim has the papers he wants and starts back for them. Meanwhile Jim and Constance have come upon a bully who is ill-treating a newsboy. Constance is incensed and expected Jim to interfere and he makes a weak pretense. Joe, however, coming along lays the bully out with a few well directed punches. Constance turns Jim down, refusing to marry a man who is a coward. Joe takes advantage of the situation and wins from Constance a promise to let him know how she feels toward his suit. The affairs of the trust company become involved and the partners see ruin and disgrace staring them in the face. Joe shows his cowardice by saving what he has and decamping, leaving Jim to fight the battle alone. A rumor of their insolvency precipitates matters and the morning sees the run on the company in full swing. Jim sacrifices everything he has, but to no avail. Joe, meanwhile, has gone to where Constance is in the country and tries to get her to elope. She is almost persuaded when she sees the headline of a paper sticking from his pocket. She eventually gets the truth from him and rebukes him for his moral cowardice in leaving his partner to face the trouble alone. Telling him he is a worse coward than Jim she dismisses him. Constance, returning from the country, finds the effects of Jim being auctioned off. She finds him in a poor office, surrounded by second-hand furniture. He is astounded that she should come to him and cannot believe it when she takes his hand and tells him he is a brave man. He gains new courage and asks her if he can hope, providing he regains his financial stability. Constance shows him that she does not mean to wait, but wants to fight with him. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Writer
George Terwilliger (story)
Producer
Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Oct 7, 1913
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Oct 7, 1913 (United States)

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Lionel Adams
Jim Foster Jim Foster   See fewer
Janice Meredith (1924)
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Maidel Turner
Florence Hope Florence Hope   See fewer
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Emanuel A. Turner
Wilkins (as E.A. Turner) Wilkins (as E.A. Turner)   See fewer
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