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  • The Old Sweetheart (1912)
  • Short | Short, Drama, Romance
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The Old Sweetheart (1912)
Short | Short, Drama, Romance
Mary loves Jack, a hard-working young man of good impulses, and their future happiness seems assured. Suddenly she is made very unhappy by her discovery of Jack's intemperance. She reasons with him and he promises to reform and tries hard ...See moreMary loves Jack, a hard-working young man of good impulses, and their future happiness seems assured. Suddenly she is made very unhappy by her discovery of Jack's intemperance. She reasons with him and he promises to reform and tries hard to keep his promise, but bad company leads him astray and the engagement is broken. Jack wanders away and becomes a tramp, while Mary learns to love rising contractor Jim and they marry. Time passes and Jim is awarded a large contract out of town and goes away, taking Mary with him. Jack, the dissipated, rejected love, while resting with some of his tramp cronies in a shanty, overhears the husband, whom he has never seen, tell an assistant that he is going to the bank for a large payroll. This arouses the greed of Jack and the tramps and they arrange to waylay Jim and get the payroll. Jim gets the money and leaves the bank for the works. Jack places the tramps in ambush and scouts off to give the signal for Jim's approach. While he is making a detour of the hole he comes upon Jim's cabin and decides to rob it. While so engaged he is interrupted by Jim's wife. He is about to silence her when he recognizes her as his former sweetheart and learns she is the wife of the contractor his gang are waiting to rob. He decides to save him and by a clever scheme he frightens away the thugs, and wins the gratitude of the husband who gives him a good position. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
James Kirkwood
Producer
Carl Laemmle
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Updated Oct 14, 1912
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Oct 14, 1912 (United States)

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