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  • A Ticket to Happiness (1914)
  • Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
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A Ticket to Happiness (1914)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
Lowell Robinson's besetting sin is selfish ingratitude. He leaves Katherine Dexter in the east, telling her that he will send for her as soon as he can make a home in the west. He secures employment on the ranch of Olaf Olson, and, ...See moreLowell Robinson's besetting sin is selfish ingratitude. He leaves Katherine Dexter in the east, telling her that he will send for her as soon as he can make a home in the west. He secures employment on the ranch of Olaf Olson, and, becoming impatient over the slow accumulation of wages, tries to accelerate financial accumulation by stealing cattle. He is arrested, but the big-hearted Swede intercedes and secures his release on probation. Robinson now concocts to work his generous friend for the girl's passage money west. He convinces Olson that the latter should marry, and available women are scarce in that locality, and he exhibits a picture of Katherine, representing that she is only an acquaintance in the east, who might be induced to come west and marry the right man. Honest Olson falls in with the idea and advances a considerable sum of money for this purpose. The correspondence leading up to this event is personally conducted by Robinson, as the Swede cannot write English. Olson, however, finally suspicious of the treachery of Robinson, locks him up in the ranch house, and himself goes to meet the girl. Her ignorance of the whole matter, as originally laid out by Robinson, confirms his doubts. He speaks of it to his sympathizers and the news flies around the little settlement like wildfire, so that a committee is organized to remonstrate with Robinson, to see that there is fair play. He, in the interim, has escaped, but the committee capture him, conduct him to Olson and the girl, where the facts are laid before Katherine, who is given the privilege of deciding between the two men. She soon decides in favor of the Swede. Robinson bows his head in defeat, leaves the place forever, so that Katherine effects a "transfer" and gets her "ticket to happiness" by a fortunate accident. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Marshall Farnum
Producer
William Nicholas Selig
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Updated May 19, 1914
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May 19, 1914 (United States)

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Lester Cuneo
Lowell Robinson Lowell Robinson   See fewer
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Katherine Dexter Katherine Dexter   See fewer
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Olaf Olsen Olaf Olsen   See fewer
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