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Saved by a Song (1916)
Short | 20 min | Short, Drama

Saved by a Song (1916)

Short | 20 min | Short, Drama

John Meadows, in jail for life, is released and told that the man who committed the crime for which he was convicted has confessed. He finally gets work in a shop where Hawkins, the proprietor, likes him. Hawkins is informed that John has ...See moreJohn Meadows, in jail for life, is released and told that the man who committed the crime for which he was convicted has confessed. He finally gets work in a shop where Hawkins, the proprietor, likes him. Hawkins is informed that John has spent a term in prison, but does not hold this against him, and shows that he intends to give the man a chance. John's fellow clerk, Ned, being in debt, steals a large sum from the safe of the store. When Hawkins misses the money, his first thought is of John, who is called into the private office and accused of the crime. He denies all knowledge of the theft. Hawkins sends for a detective. Seeing no loophole of escape, once he gets into the clutches of the law, John runs away through an open window. A few days later John stands on the docks in the slums of the city. He contemplates suicide, but finally decides to get money to live somehow. Sometime later he enters a house with every intention of robbing it. But when he hears a sweet-faced girl singing "Annie Laurie" at the piano, the old song conjures up sweet memories of the past, and he slowly replaces the things he had stolen and starts away. The girl turns, sees him and is frightened. He reassures her. He sits down and tells the girl his story, tells of the days when he was a farmer and in love with Elsie, who was also loved by the village bully. How he and the bully quarreled over Elsie, and how he threatened the bully if he ever bothered him again. Later, when the bully was found dead, stabbed through with John's pitchfork, John was arrested and convicted of the murder and railroaded to jail. But he did not kill the man; it was old man Grayson on the farm next to his who did the deed when he and the bully came to blows over some corn the bully was stealing from Grayson. Grayson was afraid to confess, and so he allowed an innocent man to suffer, but on his death bed he told all, and so John was released, but too late, for his farm has passed out of his hands, and Elsie died from loneliness and heartbreak. The girl at the piano is, indeed, sorry for John, and he straightens up and promises to do what is right hereafter. At this moment her father comes in from the club, and he is none other than Hawkins, who has been searching everywhere for John. He takes the young man's hand in his and asks him to come back to work in the morning. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Ben F. Wilson John Meadows (as Ben Wilson) John Meadows (as Ben Wilson) See fewer	The Power God (1925)
Joseph W. Girard Jed Perkins Jed Perkins See fewer	Captain Midnight (1942)
Ruth Donnelly Elsie Elsie See fewer	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Dorothy Phillips Dolly Dolly See fewer	Broadway Love (1918)
A.H. Busby Hawkins (as A.H. Bushby) Hawkins (as A.H. Bushby) See fewer	The River of Romance (1916)
Charles Ogle Grayson Grayson See fewer	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)