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A Lucky Disappointment (1914)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

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A Lucky Disappointment (1914)

Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

Mr. Fairley, a rancher, strongly objects when he finds his daughter, May, and young Jack Holt making love. Threatening to shoot Jack, he orders him from the house. May, fearing for Jack's safety, hides her father's gun. Mr. Fairley goes to...See moreMr. Fairley, a rancher, strongly objects when he finds his daughter, May, and young Jack Holt making love. Threatening to shoot Jack, he orders him from the house. May, fearing for Jack's safety, hides her father's gun. Mr. Fairley goes to the bank to draw money to pay for stock. While he is away Jack returns and persuades May to elope with him that night. Mr. Fairley returns from the bank and is busy far into the night. May manages to slip out of the window when the time arrives. She meets Jack and they speed off in a waiting buggy. Two traveling tinkers, who had become aware that there was a lot of money in the house, make use of the ladder, which May used to get out of her window, to effect an entrance. The tinkers surprise Mr. Fairley just as he has replaced the money in the safe. They bind, gag and threaten to torture him unless he tells the combination. Jack and May arrive at the parson's and discover the parson has gone out of town and won't be back till next day. They decide to postpone the ceremony and hurry home. Unaware of what is happening in Mr. Fairley's office, Jack advises May to go quietly up the ladder so that she won't disturb her father. When May gets to her room she hears some strange noise and goes down the stairs to investigate. As she enters the office, she is seized by the tinkers, who try to make her open the safe for them. She refuses until the tinkers threaten to torture her father with hot irons. Jack is about to ride off when he hears May scream. He runs up the ladder and then finds his way downstairs to the office. May is about to open the safe when Jack enters. Jack is no match for the two burly tinkers and they soon overpower him. May looks on with terror, then remembering where she hid her father's gun she gets it and orders the tinkers to hold up their hands. Then giving the gun to Jack, who covers the crooks, she releases her father and gives the alarm. The crooks are given into the custody of some ranch hands. Jack returns the gun to Mr. Fairley, and is about to embrace May, when Mr. Fairley covers him with the gun and reminds Jack that he must first ask his consent. Jack puts his hands up but Mr. Fairley's face softens as he pulls Jack's hand down and places it in that of May. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Joseph Belmont Mr. Fairley (as Baldy Belmont) Mr. Fairley (as Baldy Belmont) See fewer	Prejudice (1922)
Florence Crawford Myrtle Fairley Myrtle Fairley See fewer	The Little Mother (II) (1915)
Elmer Clifton Jack Holt Jack Holt See fewer	The Secret of Treasure Island (1938)
Arthur Mackley Traveling Tinker Traveling Tinker See fewer	Old Gorman's Gal (1913)
N.Z. Wood Umbrella Mender (as Mr. Woods) Umbrella Mender (as Mr. Woods) See fewer	Peggy's Invitation (1913)