Competition (1915)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1915-03-17
Director: B. Reeves Eason , Tom Ricketts
Writers: Theodosia Harris
Language: None | English
Stars: David Lythgoe , Harry von Meter , Louise Lester , Vivian Rich , Jack Richardson , Perry Banks , B. Reeves Eason , Charlotte Burton
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Competition , Competition (United States of America)
Plot: Farmer Stubbs does not approve of his daughter at all when she returns from school dressed in the latest fashion. When the most prosperous farmer in Pike County proposes and is rejected he approves much less of her and decides to put her to work. Jim Daley, a city sweetheart, is on his way to propose to her. He hopes the parents will approve as his raising has made him utterly against elopement. He arrives at an inopportune time and is refused with more dispatch than courtesy. The old man asserts that his daughter will marry a farmer or no one. Things are despondent when a bright idea strikes Jim. He decides to lease the adjacent farm, disguise himself as a farmer and by competition bring not only Dad but Josh to his terms. After a month or two Josh and Dad offer to buy him out to get rid of him, such inroads has he made into their dairy business He brings them to his terms and then adds that the consent of the old man to the marriage of Myra will be thrown in. This does not displease the old man so much, as he thinks he is giving her to a prosperous farmer. He is bowled over when his son-in-law discloses his identity, but he has to accept the situation.
IMDB:tt0429801