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The Split Nugget
(1913) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Wilbert Melville
Cast: Henry King [Harold, John Stanton’s son], Irene Hunt [Elsie, John Stanton’s daughter], Carl von Schiller [the daughter’s husband, a bandit], Laura Nevius [Mrs. Stanton, the mother], Joseph Holland [John Stanton Sr.]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Wilber Melville. / Released 11 April 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? John Stanton, a miner his wife and children, a son and a daughter live in a cabin about a mile from Stanton’s claim. One day the boy discovers several stones which he carries back to show to the father. They prove to be nuggets, one more valuable than the rest. The father takes the nugget and cuts it in half giving one part to the boy and the other to the girl. The father starts out to work one morning and takes the boy with him. While at work the cabin is attacked by Indians, who kill the mother and set fire to the house. The father hears the fight and starts for the cabin. He arrives and gives the Indians battle. He is mortally wounded. And the Indians depart, taking the girl with them. In the meantime the boy gets worried at his father’s continued absence and starts for home. He arrives just before the father dies and the father tells him to be on the watch for his sister and find her if possible. Later the boy is found by a party of prospectors and cared for. Fifteen years elapse and the boy has grown to manhood. The prospectors who adopted him have struck it rich, and owners of a valuable mine. The boy holds the position of cashier. In the meantime the girl has been brought up by the Indians. One day she meets a young man who is immediately smitten by her beauty. They are married. Unknown to the girl her husband is a bandit. Poverty overtakes them and the young husband resolves to look for work. He sees a pack train carrying gold dust from the mine to the bank and decides to rob it. He carries out his plan and in the holdup Harold is wounded. The bandit gets the gold and escapes. The wounded boy chances upon the cabin and his wounds are dressed by the girl. The bandit returns home and is overpowered by Harold. One of the miners, who went for aid, has formed a posse and is returning to the scene of the holdup. They follow the tracks to the cabin. In the meantime the boy, having learned that the bandit’s wife is his sister, decides to save her husband. He sends the posse on a false trail and saves them both. // [From Lubin promotional materials] John Stanton and his family live in a cabin close by his claim. One day his boy Harold finds a number of stones which prove to be nuggets. Stanton selects the biggest and cutting it in halves, gives one piece to Harold and the other to his sister Elsie. Later the cabin is attacked by Indians. John is mortally wounded, his wife killed, and the girl is captured and taken to the Indian camp. Dying, John implores the boy to try and find his sister. Years pass and the girl meets a young white man, they become attracted and marry. The husband is a bandit, but Elsie does not know it. Harold is taken care of by a successful corporation of Mining Operators and is made cashier. One day, the bandit holds up a gold pack train of which Harold is in charge of. The young man is wounded and the bandit makes his escape with the gold. Harold crawls to Dick Winter’s cabin and there meets his sister, the bandit enters and Harold attacks and overcomes him. The sheriff’s posse raid the cabin and Harold discovering that the bandit is his sister’s husband, assists them to escape across the Mexican border.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 8 October 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
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