Charles West is a writer in the Southwest. He is looking for color for his writings, so he stops at "The Red Dog Hotel", wins obscenely large sums of money at faro, and proceeds to escape having his throat cut by happenstance and the good will of poor Mexican girl Mary Pickford, whom he smiled at.
It's a ridiculous story. West deserves to be found dead in his room in the morning with his possessions missing. However, that's not the point of looking at this Biograph short, which is available in a beautifully preserved sepia tint on Youtube. It's beautifully shot, too, and shot on location, probably during one of the yearly trips Griffith and company took out west each winter.
It's a ridiculous story. West deserves to be found dead in his room in the morning with his possessions missing. However, that's not the point of looking at this Biograph short, which is available in a beautifully preserved sepia tint on Youtube. It's beautifully shot, too, and shot on location, probably during one of the yearly trips Griffith and company took out west each winter.