Rollin S. Sturgeon
Total Credits at Criticker: 15 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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The Courage of the Commonplace (1913) - Short Film
Vitagraph short about a farmer's daughter who works her butt off and never really gets anything out of it. She dreams of one day going to college and finally gets her shot but something bad happens on the farm, which might cause her to stay home. (imdb comments)
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A woman's father cannot afford a train ticket, so he ships his daughter by Wells Fargo & Co. Express. He loses his money to a villain and cannot claim his "shipment." The villain attempts to claim her, but the Wells Fargo agent foils the plot and claims her himself.
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Adrian Plummer (Ernest Torrence) is a narrow-minded preacher; Charles Chew, the richest man in the town (George Fawcett) is a confirmed atheist. So when Plummer's son, Guy (Broadway star Glenn Hughes) and Chew's daughter, Bee (May McAvoy), fall in love, neither family looks well on the union. Cod Dugan (Riley Hatch), who runs the local poolroom, has gotten fed up with Plummer's lectures, so he decides to get back at the preacher.
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Romantic adventure film in which the girl Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her gullible father is tricked by a set of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty.
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A romantic comedy about a female shop assistant who manages to prevent the robbery of a rich woman, and who then becomes wealthy herself, although she remains a nice and normal girl. The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prevent a million-dollar robbery of the same woman.
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The Triumph of Right (1912) - Short Film
A drama in which a man buys a horse in order to get medicine for his wife, but is then arrested because he is riding a stolen horse.
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A Girl of the West (1912) - Short Film
A Western drama in which a gang steals John's horse and then kidnaps Polly when she tries to warn the new buyer.
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At the End of the Trail (1912) - Short Film
A short Western about the tragic romance between a sheriff and the daughter of a horse thief.
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A Bit of Blue Ribbon (1913) - Short Film
Senor is only a horse, a thoroughbred, and winner of many blue ribbons. On account of old age, Jim Hartwell, the ranch owner, orders Steve, an employee, to take the old horse into the foothills and shoot him. Kitty, Hartwell's daughter, loves old Senor and claims him for her personal property. Steve loves Kitty and refuses to shoot the horse. In anger, Hartwell discharges him. The ranch owner, mounting his horse, leads Senor to the foothills. (imdb)
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The Craven (1912) - Short Film
A short Western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.
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The Greater Love (1912) - Short Film
A romantic Western in which a notorious criminal who is in love with the fiancée of the sheriff digs his own sentence by reuniting the sheriff, whom he has wounded, with the girl.
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How States Are Made (1912) - Short Film
Twenty or twenty-five years ago, when the unoccupied government lands were released for settlement, everyone who registered their names was given a fair and free chance to secure one of the sections of land, which was apportioned off in sections. The settlers were drawn up in a long line at a certain distance from the lands opened up, some of them on horseback and others in vehicles of all descriptions. At the firing of a cannon, everybody made a rush for the land. (imdb)
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The Redemption of Red Rube (1912) - Short Film
A short Western about a bandit who saves the daughter of the sheriff.
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A Wasted Sacrifice (1912) - Short Film
A short Western. When his child dies, Dick is at wit's end. He begins to drink, and shoots someone dead. As the sheriff is chasing him, Dick comes across a dead Indian woman with her child. He cares for the child, and warns the sheriff. When they find him, the child has already died, and they take him away.
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The Better Man (1912) - Short Film
With a fondness for gambling, Jim Saunders is given to neglecting his wife and child. One night during his absence at the saloon, Miguel Gomez, a Mexican outlaw, for whom $1,000 reward is offered, enters Jim's home and demands food of Mrs. Saunders. Her little child, suffering with a severe attack of croup demands her constant attention and she tells Gomez to help himself. The child is taken with a fit of choking, and her mother, alarmed, asks the outlaw to go for a doctor.
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