The Clean Gun


1917

Film Details

Release Date
Oct 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Falcon Features
Distribution Company
General Film Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Clean Gun" by Barr Moses in People's Magazine (publication date undetermined).

Synopsis

Stephen Crawfield, an old friend of Senator Norton, needs a large sum of money immediately, so he proposes to the Senator's daughter Matie. She refuses him, and later Crawfield overhears Matie accept the proposal of Jack Algers, a young society man. Jack's millionaire uncle, Dean Grayson, who refuses to give Jack money to marry, is shot and killed at Senator Norton's hunting party, during which a mysterious stranger lurks behind trees. When a gun which looks like Jack's is found in a tree stump, Jack entrusts both guns to Crawfield, who switches Jack's clean gun with the used one. Jack is arrested and Crawfield courts Matie again, but Della Markham, who loves Crawfield, warns him to stop his suit and says that she saw him shoot Grayson. Their conversation, which is overheard by Senator Norton and Matie, leads to Crawfield's arrest and Jack's release. The mysterious stranger, who has continued his lurking, buys a ticket for a journey and, grinning at the spectators, says that he has merely butted into the story.

Film Details

Release Date
Oct 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Falcon Features
Distribution Company
General Film Co.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Clean Gun" by Barr Moses in People's Magazine (publication date undetermined).

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According to a pre-production news item, this film was to be part of the Horkheimer's Fortune Photoplays series, which disbanded in June 1917 and became Falcon Features in August 1917.