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Pure Gold (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

Pure Gold (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

Stranded alone and penniless in Yellow City, dancer Helen Cross is compelled to accept an engagement with town saloonkeeper as singer and dancer. Her popularity is pronounced from the start, but she becomes disgusted with the rough miners ...See moreStranded alone and penniless in Yellow City, dancer Helen Cross is compelled to accept an engagement with town saloonkeeper as singer and dancer. Her popularity is pronounced from the start, but she becomes disgusted with the rough miners and the life in general and determines to escape it all. Partly disguised, she gets out unnoticed and wanders through the hills. Overcome with fatigue, she knocks at the door of a lonely cabin. She is admitted and silently extended the hospitality of the cabin by the lone miner. The next morning she prepares to leave; she thanks her host but receives only a gruff recognition. Then he regrets his cold attitude and asks her to stay and tell her story. She does and he is greatly impressed, but the following evening, not realizing the woman's sterling character, he attempts familiarities. She resents them, even threatening to kill herself should he persist. With new-born respect, he quietly leaves her after showing her how to bar the door. Next morning he is stricken with fever, and although she has decided to leave that day, Helen stays and nurses him through three weeks of fever. He recovers, and in their new attitude towards each other, the two become the best of friends. While helping him work his gold claim, she one day strikes a pocket, or slight depression, containing several good-sized nuggets of gold. Thinking to surprise him, she hides them. He finds them, and becomes suspicious. He says nothing, but watches her, and comes to the conclusion that she is planning to steal them. Feeling under obligations to her, he remains silent, but she notices his strange coldness, and despairingly decides to go away. She places a little note where he can see it, in which the heartbroken woman explains what she planned to do with the gold. He finds it and awakens to the fact that Helen's character is like the nuggets, pure gold. The joyful reunion which follows expresses more than words can tell. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less