The Governor's Daughter (1910)

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A convict escapes after a train crash kills the sheriff guarding him. He stops running to save a young girl and is recaptured. The girl turns out to be the governor's daughter and her father later pardons the convict.

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What happens

The Governor's Daughter is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The story details a convict who is being sent to prison when the train is wrecked and the sheriff escorting him is killed. The convict frees himself, but halts his escape to save the life of a little girl. As he returns the girl to her nurse, a policeman identifies and recaptures him. Later the little girl accompanies her father, the governor, on a tour of the prison and the father pardons the hero-convict. The film included scenes of a real train wreck and the scenario was written around the filming of the disaster. The film received praise for the before and after scenes which were described as shocking to The Moving Picture World's reviewer. The film was released on June 24, 1910, and was shown as far away as Australia. The film is presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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