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His Best Friend (1913)
Short | 18 min | Short, Drama

His Best Friend (1913)

Short | 18 min | Short, Drama

Phil Stewart, bank cashier, and Cal Boone, teller, are great friends. Cal was in love with Doris Stewart, but Phil married her, and Cal has been the best friend of the family ever since. Phil uses the bank's money to further personal ...See morePhil Stewart, bank cashier, and Cal Boone, teller, are great friends. Cal was in love with Doris Stewart, but Phil married her, and Cal has been the best friend of the family ever since. Phil uses the bank's money to further personal schemes and loses. He gets a letter from Jackson telling him that all has been wiped out and that if he can't make good his thefts at the bank, he had better get out of town. Phil is compelled to tell Cal about it, and Cal in anger reminds him of Doris. A quarrel follows and Cal goes to the bank to try and fix up the shortage. Phil tells his wife nothing about the reasons of the quarrel, but Doris is worried. Phil prepares to decamp and writes a letter to Doris, explaining everything. The letter from Jackson he packs in the suitcase. Doris goes to Phil's room and he hides the suitcase in the closet, and the letter to her under a book, meaning to go to the bank to get more money and get out of town. Cal, meanwhile, has covered the shortage and just turned out the light as Phil enters. When he sees Phil rob the safe and realizes that he is going to run away he hurries in to him and tries to explain what he has done for his friend. Phil in his frenzied anger draws his revolver from the desk, threatening Cal if he tries to stop him he will shoot. Cal jumps for him: Phil trips as he falls and is shot accidentally. Cal gets the money and replaces it in the safe just as a policeman who has heard the shot enters. Cal is arrested for the murder and will not explain. Doris testifies against Cal by relating the quarrel, and Cal refuses to make a plea in his own behalf. He is sentenced to life imprisonment and Doris instills in her boy, Harry, a hatred of Cal. Years elapse and the traits of his father's character become rampant in Harry. His mother lectures him about his drunkenness and Harry runs away. Cal. after years of his terrible life, escapes. Doris, in her sorrow goes to her husband's bedroom. It has been left intact. Dust lies thick everywhere. As she fondles the different articles lying about just as he left them, she finds the letter to her. The awful truth begins to dawn upon her. She hears of Cal's escape and goes to the Governor. He agrees to give Cal a new trial, or pardon, if he can be found. Cal reads of it and decides to see Doris before taking any chances. Harry reads of the escape and goes home. He enters the parlor, sees Cal in the nest room and he raises his revolver to kill. His mother enters the library and Cal finds out that the news is correct. She asks why he made the great sacrifice and he tells her because he loved her. Explanations follow and Harry learns that Cal is really a "best friend" and the intimation is that he will later be even more. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Harry Myers Cal Boone Cal Boone See fewer	City Lights (1931)
Martin Faust Phil Stewart Phil Stewart See fewer	Lena Rivers (II) (1914)

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