The Man from Montana
The Man from Montana is a 1917 silent Western directed by George Marshall. It stars Neal Hart and George Berrell and runs about 50 minutes. The film was released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company and is now considered possibly lost, with no confirmed surviving copies.
Plot (easy version):
Warren Summers, his wife, and their pretty relative Meta Cooper go to Green Water to buy the Bumble Bee mine from Duke Fairley and Dad Petzel. While Duke is away, Dad sells the mine for worthless stock. Duke heads east to find the swindlers and to see Meta again. Meanwhile, Dad and his sons work an old mine called “The Worm” and strike it rich. They travel east to tell Duke, but end up at the New York docks where they are shanghaied onto a ship.
Duke escorts Meta across the state line to deliver the stocks and is arrested for taking a girl out of state. Back in New York, Duke marries Meta, which makes Summers and his gang angry. They kidnap Meta and tell Duke to bring money to the docks for her release. Duke goes to the docks, is again shanghaied, and ends up on the same ship as Dad and the boys. After they recover, they explain their troubles, and the crew helps them get back to shore.
Duke arrives in time to rescue Meta, and the crafty relatives are handed over to the law.
Censorship notes:
The Chicago Board of Censors required cuts in several reels, removing lines about crossing the state line, various thefts, and a number of scenes and intertitles related to shanghai, money exchanges, and attacks on a man.
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