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14 Mins.; Three. Strong play for melodramatic thrill. Miner escapes from prison where he was doing a life term for murder. He gets with Bud, a friend, who tells him to beat it to the Mexican border. Jim from Death Valley ays “No.” He wants a song, a smile from a woman’s lips and a moment’s dream of what a life might have been. Jim gets it and with it the sheriff’s hand shackles. But Jim puts one over and makes the officer captive. As he starts with him for the border, General Creighton, whose daughter loves Jim (none other than Harry Wayne who killed one Trenton, crazed with a drink, who threatened a woman’s life and reputation), says the Gov of California is an old friend of his and that Jim should write the General to get the boy a pardon. There’s a vaudeville thriller for you. Fine pickings for the novel reading kids.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.9, October 31, 1914.