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Heaven Will Protect a Woiking Goil

Short Films • 20-Feb-1916

In this parody of Victorian melodramas, country girl Nell travels to the heartless city to find her drunken father. While there, she falls into the clutches of a mustache-twirling villain. When she rejects his advances, he and a crooked cop chase her down and tie her to the railroad tracks as a train speedily approaches.

Tags
chase, comedy, ethnic stereotype, fight, landlord, lecher, parody, short, sissy, slapstick, tied to railroad tracks, train
Cast
Priscilla Dean The Heroine
Russ Powell The Hero
Arthur Moon The Villain
Paddy McQuire His Accomplice
Louise Owen The Shop Girl
Crew
John Francis Dillon director

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