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Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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His Partner’s Share
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Robert Goodman?
Cast: Ray Gallagher [Ray]
Méliès Star-Film [American] production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. / Released 29 August 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Two young prospectors, Paul and Ray, leave for the west in search of gold. They happen to strike it rich and stake a good claim. On the way back to their cabin Ray, slipping over a cliff, falls to the rocks below, and Paul, thinking him dead, pockets the whole of the proceeds of the sale of the claim to a wealthy syndicate. But Ray was not dead, as Paul supposed, and is nursed back to life by some strangers who had found him helpless on the rocks. Paul had meanwhile returned to the city and settled there as a wealthy man. Ray, now penniless, also returns to the city to seek for work. Not knowing where Paul is to be found and driven by want and desperation, he breaks into a wealthy home. Fate must have had a hand in his directing, for it was thus that he found himself in Paul's house and met his faithless partner. For the sake of Paul's little girl, Ray decides to renounce his claims, but Paul, stricken with remorse and overcome by Ray's generosity, calls him back and gives him a check for the half share of the sale which was his due. / [From Méliès promotional materials] A story of the gold prospectors. Paul and Ray make a lucky strike and fate seems to play into Paul’s hands, for Ray, slipping from a cliff, falls to his death on the rocks below. Paul, selling out for a large sum, retires to the city to enjoy his wealth. Ray, however, was not dead, and is nursed back to life by the strangers who found him. Penniless and desperate, the pictures graphically show how Ray chanced to find Paul and how the great wrong was righted.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 14 October 2022.
References: Thompson-Star p. 232 : Website-IMDb.
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