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My Prairie Flower
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by William F. Haddock
Cast: William Clifford [Bob Ford], Edith Storey [Flora Jones], Henry Stanley [the father], [?] Francis Ford?
G. Méliès production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Gaston Méliès. Cinematography by [?] William Paley? / Released 23 February 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy-Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Bob Ford, a young college graduate and a man-about-town, self-willed and wild, who tries his father’s patience and generosity by going the limit, is called to a sudden halt by the old gentleman and sent out west with his valet to work on Jones’ ranch in Texas and prove to his father that he is not a hopeless renegade. Bob arrives in Texas with his valet, whom he tells to take his place and pretend that he is Bob while he, Bob, will pretend to be the valet. Mr. Jones has a very pretty daughter, Flora, for whom her father feels some anxiety about coming in contact with a young city fellow, college bred like Bob, fearing that she will fall in love with him. Jenkins, the valet, presents the note from Bob’s father to Mr. Jones, and the valet is received as Mr. Ford’s son, while Bob is treated as the valet. The “Boys” about the ranch lay plans to put Jenkins through a course of sprouts and the way they do it would do credit to a “hazing bee.” Bob runs against a snag when he meets Langdon who has the reputation of being a “bad man,” in a fight and tries to put is “all over” the tenderfoot. Bob is game and tells Langdon, if he wants to fight like a man, to put down his gun and put up his fists. They get busy; Langdon is put “down and out” and loses his reputation as a terror. From that time on, Bob is one of the most popular men on the ranch. He falls in love with Flora and Flora doesn’t object. From this point on, Bob has easy sailing and when his father comes to visit him at the ranch he is delighted to find his boy in good shape and a man among men, and just as happy when he learns that Bob is engaged to Flora Jones.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: USA: Texas
Listing updated: 25 May 2024.
References: Thompson-Star pp. 167-168, 229 : ClasIm-226 p. 54 : Website-IMDb.
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