The Girl in the Shack (1914)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1914-05-15
Director: Edward Morrissey
Writers: Anita Loos
Language: None | English
Stars: Mae Marsh , Earle Foxe , Spottiswoode Aitken
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Girl in the Shack , The Girl in the Shack (United States of America)
Plot: Jim, a miner in a frontier town, gets mixed up in a saloon brawl while drunk and wounds a man. He makes his escape and, after a long chase, manages to evade the sheriff and his posse. He travels some distance on foot and finally, tired and hungry, comes to a little shack. He knocks on the door and an uncouth frontier girl answers. The girl, Jenny, hospitably invites him in and gives him coffee and food. Then, while she sits across the table from him and watches him eat, the two strike up a pleasant, easy-going friendship, as people do in frontier communities. Jim has completely forgotten his troubles when the sound of approaching horses brings him in terror to his feet. He looks out of the window and sees the sheriff at hand. The girl, dazed and frightened, does not know what to make of his actions and stands stupidly by while Jim hides himself behind an old curtain that is hanging on the wall. The sheriff enters, greets Jenny, whom he knows, and asks her if she has seen the fugitive. Jenny, still dazed, answers, "No." As she is a good and trustworthy girl, the sheriff delays no longer. He and the posse ride off. Jim, rather crestfallen, comes forth from his hiding place. He starts for the door, then turns and shamefacedly offers Jenny his hand. Jenny turns away and says, "I'm not used to shaking hands with fugitives from the law." Jim goes out the door, but on the outside he stops. He has decided that it is very important that he stand right with the girl in the shack. He hesitates but a moment and then, putting both hands to his mouth, he calls aloud after the departing sheriff. The posse wheels their horses about and come back. Jenny, who has watched them from the doorway, goes up to Jim and offers him her hand. He holds it solemnly for a moment, and then goes away with the sheriff. It is some time later. Jim, who only wounded his man, is turned out of jail after a moderate sentence. He rides back to the shack and finds Jenny sitting in the doorway. He asks her if she has waited for him and she says, "Yes."
IMDB:tt0459362