The Sheriff's Baby
Three outlaws, pursued by the posse, are crossing the desert when a child's cry halts them. Near a deserted wagon they see a mountain lion about to devour a baby, whose late guardians lie dead of thirst nearby. Driving off the bea...
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"With his wife dead, sheriff Alfred Paget sends his baby across the desert to safer hands. But the people who are taking the infant run out of water and die. Bandits Henry B. Walthall, Harry Carey, and Lionel Barrymore, are fleeing Paget and his posse. They find the baby and take it with them. Two of them fall prey to Indians, but do not abandon the child. Sounds like an uncredited first movie version of THREE GODFATHERS, doesn't it? It could well be, were it not that this was released in March of 1913, and Peter Kyne's novel was first published in November of that year. Maybe Edward..."
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This was the first screen adaptation of Peter B. Kyne's "Three Godfathers", which has been filmed several times since, most notably by John Ford, which was dedicated to Harry Carey, one of this film's stars.
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Three outlaws, pursued by the posse, are crossing the desert when a child's cry halts them. Near a deserted wagon they see a mountain lion about to devour a baby, whose late guardians lie dead of thirst nearby. Driving off the bea...