The Navajo Ring (1915)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Short, Western
Release: 1915-01-21
Director: Ulysses Davis
Writers: Fred R. Ashfield
Language: None | English
Stars: William Duncan , Anne Schaefer , Patricia Palmer , George Kunkel , George Holt , Jack Mower
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Navajo Ring (United States of America) , The Navajo Ring
Plot: The town drunk and bad man of a small western town, Jim Dace, becomes so abusive and neglectful of his family that his wife can stand it no longer. She leaves him, taking with her their child Jess. He receives a shock next morning when he awakens and finds them gone. Later, he leaves town, reforms and becomes prosperous, but the longing to see his family grows stronger as the years pass. He resolves to travel, cherishing a secret hope that he might in that way learn something of them. Meanwhile it has been a constant struggle for existence for his wife to bring up the child, and when Jess is eighteen, the mother is unable to keep up the strain. The bread winning falls upon the girl's shoulders, she loses her position and, unable to find other employment, is faced with the double care of providing medicine and caring for her mother. Seeing a flashily-dressed woman leave a cafe door, the desperate girl enters the place. Approached by a loafer, Jess, terrified, takes out a Navajo ring her father had given her when a baby and asks him if he will purchase it. Accompanied by an old friend from the east, Jim happens in at this moment. He is at once struck by the incongruity of the girl's presence in that place, and experiences a strange feeling that he has known the girl previously. The sight of the Navajo ring crystallizes this thought into instant recollection; the girl is his own daughter, Jess. The loafer tries to force the girl to drink and Jim interferes. Words are passed and Jim knocks the fellow down, then escapes with Jess. Safely outside, Jim learns the powerful motive back of the girl's action, and tells her to take him to her mother at once, as he believes he is her own father. By the bedside of Mary, his long-lost wife, there is a joyful reunion, and the following day, Jim takes his wife and daughter in his automobile to his beautiful home and establishes them in the midst of comfort and luxury.
IMDB:tt0842795