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The Governor’s Daughter
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Lem B. Parker
Cast: Kathlyn Williams [Kate Millbank, the governor’s daughter], Harold Lockwood [Jim Carey], Eugenie Besserer [Mrs. Carey, Jim’s mother], Henry Otto [Antone Galvez], Lem B. Parker [Governor Millbank], William P. Hutchinson (William Hutchison) [William Barnes], Al Ernest Garcia [the prison parson]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Maibelle Heikes Justice. / Released 3 February 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Jim Carey finds an old prospector dying in the desert, and is entrusted with his treasure as a reward for hastening for help. This good act is witnessed by Galvez, who harbors revenge against Carey. He finds his knife, finishes the old man in the desert, and charges Carey with the crime. In his wild ride for the doctor Carey saves the stage from a hold-up and rescues the governor’s daughter. In the plea for executive clemency, made by his mother, to save him from the scaffold, she shows his picture to the governor and it is recognized by his daughter, which establishes his alibi, and brings his accuser, Galvez, to justice.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 15 February 1913, page ?] Two years ago the Selig company produced this picture with Hobart Bosworth in the leading role, and did it well, much better than at this time. The script was better written for this picture (it naturally would be), but the actors, with the sole exception of the man’s old mother, do not reach the same level and do not, as a whole, begin to touch the others in the force with which they impress the picture’s intention on the imagination. Their acting is fair, for the most part, and there are one or two fine moments. Where the action is vigorous, as in the out-of-door scenes and the prison scenes, the picture holds, but the scenes in the governor’s house, except the ending, are not effective. The mother is played by Eugenie Besserer; the man who is almost hanged is Harold Lockwood; the governor’s daughter is Kathlyn Williams, and Lem Parker plays the governor. Henry W. Otto and William Hutchison have good roles. We miss the fine prison scenes of the former picture; they were great.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 12 February 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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