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Steve's Steadfast Steed (1915)
Short | Short, Comedy

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Steve's Steadfast Steed (1915)

Short | Short, Comedy

Lucille, daughter of the owner of the Worst Luck Mine, is in love with Stalwart Steve and endeavors to persuade her father to give his consent to their engagement. Father, however, is inclined to believe that his daughter is intended to ...See moreLucille, daughter of the owner of the Worst Luck Mine, is in love with Stalwart Steve and endeavors to persuade her father to give his consent to their engagement. Father, however, is inclined to believe that his daughter is intended to raise the family socially, and looks to the day when he can take her abroad and have her introduced among the nobility. The advent of Reginald Percival Scrubbs seems like a Heaven-sent blessing to father, especially as Archie immediately becomes enamored of Lucille, when he sees the pile of nuggets the Worst Luck Mine yields daily. Steve gains Archie's hatred and through his influence, father sends Steve into the desert to hunt for new mines and confines Lucille to her room in punishment for ever having loved such a common person as Steve. Archie presses his suit without avail until he learns from Lucille's lips of the oath she has made never to marry anyone while Steve lives. Archie then sets out to find Steve. He locates him in Undertaker's Gulch, thirty miles from water and treacherously steals his Thermos bottle, leaving him without any means of getting supplies. Going back to Lucille, he tells her Steve is dead, and shows her the bottle as proof. Steve, however, bethinks himself of a way out of his danger. He pins a message for help on his noble burro and sends it back to the mine for aid. Lucille gets the message, takes the family hose, connects it to the hydrant and sets out through thirty miles of cactus to take the lifegiving water to her sweetheart. Placing the nozzle in the dying miner's mouth, she returns home again to turn on the water. Meanwhile, Archie has discovered the hose and is about to cut the line. Lucille arrives in time and a struggle ensues. Father, while the fight is raging, finds that Archie held five aces on him the night before and joins the fray, taking sides this time with Lucille. Archie is discomfited. Lucille turns on the water and Stalwart Steve, thirty miles away in the desert, is revived and returns home to receive Lucille as his bride. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less