- An early Biograph short in which two separate sequences of events collide and the leading man must save his lady from the villain. The first storyline involves a group of young-adult beach-goers, particularly focusing on one couple in love. The other storyline involves a criminal who escapes from two policemen. The con eventually makes his way to the beach where the other group is frolicking. He takes the leading lady hostage out in a rowboat, and it is up to her man to save her.—bughouse
- When love is young, all the world seems gay; hence Tom Hudson and Alice Fairchild are carefree and happy as they join the little party for a outing at the beach. Though the young folks find great sport cavorting in the breakers. Tom and Alice are well content to sit on the sand under a sunshade and spoon. This induced their friends to tantalize them a bit, and seizing Tom, carry him into the surf and give him a ducking, promising the same treatment to Alice. She, however, leads them a merry chase. During the forenoon, a dangerous lunatic, who was being conveyed by keepers from the train to the asylum nearby, overpowers the keepers and escapes. Coming upon an Italian laborer in the road, assaults him and secures his stiletto. Armed with this he terrorized the neighborhood and comes onto the beach as Alice, playfully pursued by her friends, jumps into a puntboat to row out from shore. Before she is aware of it, she is driven to sea by this maniacal fiend, who is now brandishing the stiletto in a most terrifying manner. The keepers have now reached the beach and alarm the party by acquainting them with the real character of the girl's companion. A rowboat is procured, and the keepers, with Tom, start in pursuit. The fanatic makes a strenuous effort to outstrip them, but with poor success, until at length, finding his apprehension inevitable, leaps to his feet and is about to plunge the knife into the breast of the terror-stricken girl, when a well directed bullet from the keeper's gun fells him to the bottom of the boat. The poor girl is then taken to shore by Tom and revived by her girl companions.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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