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1914Thanhouser CompanyOne reelWestern

The Outlaw’s Nemesis

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

The story

“Jim Reynolds, the old sheriff of Tucson County, had been trying for months to capture ‘Red’ Anderson. When George Carter, a young rancher, came to persuade the old man to give his blessing to his marriage with Reynolds’ daughter, Grace, the sheriff testily replied: ‘Young man, if you’ve got the stuffing in you, you’ll lasso that confounded bandit and bring him to me first.’ Carter did his best. But is wasn’t one of those battles one could fight out in the open. Grace saw this. She realized that Anderson must somehow be duped and trapped. But her lover, while there wasn’t a braver or stronger fellow in the county, was no adroit tactician. Being a woman, she had all the subtlety he lacked; so she decided to take a hand. Grace disguised herself as an Eastern tourist and pathetically lost herself in the hills. There she encountered the outlaw. He wasn’t so much bad as he was romantic. He would have been a great hero in the days of Robin Hood. A damsel in distress made a mighty appeal to him, and, throwing caution to the winds, he escorted the sheriff’s daughter to the settlement. Reynolds decided that so clever a girl deserved the man she wanted. As for the bandit, he went free after all.”

Summary from Reel Life · 20 June 1914

What the papers said

3 reviews

“A sufficiently interesting Western drama, dealing with the rather mean trick by means of which a young woman captures a notorious bandit and incidentally gains her father’s consent to her marriage with the man of her choice. The film is notable for its marvelous photography, which is of a consummate perfection, unusual even for the Thanhouser Company.”

The Bioscope · 15 October 1914

“The sheriff tells the young man who wants to marry his daughter that when he brings Red Anderson into camp he can do so. The girl herself does the trick, secures the bandit’s release, and then convinces her father that any girl who can do that ought to get the man she wants.”

The Morning Telegraph · 21 June 1914

More reviews

27 June 1914The Moving Picture World1 min

“A mixture of comedy and ‘Western’ stuff; but it is not convincing. Thanhouser is so strong in refined Eastern comedies and dramas that it seems a pity for them to make this sort of stuff. We don’t dare call it a success, in spite of the fact that there is a good laugh or two in it. Photographs seem poor.”

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Cast and crew

Director
James Durkin
Cast
Boyd Marshall as George Carter
George Harris as “Red” Anderson, bandit
J.S. Murray as Jim Reynolds, sheriff
C. John Sullivan as Jack Burns, his pal
James S. Murray
Mayre Hall as Grace, the sheriff’s daughter

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More about this film

Filmed in
Ogdensburg, New Jersey

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1914 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Outlaw’s Nemesis”. thanhouser.org/films/the-outlaw-s-nemesis/

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