The Sheriff’s Master (1914)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Short, Western
Release: 1914-10-02
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: English
Stars: Arthur Mackley , Julia Mackley
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Sheriff's Master (United States of America) , The Sheriff's Master
Plot: Pete, the sheriff, is inflated with his own importance. But when his wife turns suffragette, he gets his deserts. To escape from her iron rule, he takes to his bed, feigning sickness. Miranda is aware of the ruse, and she and the doctor plot to punish the sheriff. He is forced to take the bitterest medicine imaginable and is gravely told that he has little hope for recovery. A friend of the sheriff's, who knows the joke from the doctor, comes to see Pete, who by this time really believes that he is frightfully ill. The friend tells him that his wife and the doctor are only bluffing him, and invites him to come and have a game of poker. The sheriff runs away to the saloon where he loses all his money, his pistols and his watch. Terrified at the thought of facing his wife, he persuades Red Steve, a notorious outlaw whom he meets, to exchange clothes with him and go home in his place. Pete's wife falls upon the disguised outlaw and gives him a terrible beating. Then, when she discovers her mistake, she is overcome with horror lest the outlaw has killed her husband. She compels him to lead her to the spot where he last saw Pete. The latter has already enjoyed the situation from afar. He now lies down in the road and pretends to be half dead. Miranda beats the outlaw breathless, then, under her caresses, Pete slowly revives, never again to descend to such depths of masculine humiliation.
IMDB:tt2343156