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The Well Sick Man (1913)

The Well Sick Man poster
Directed by
J. Searle Dawley
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A businessman fires his daughter's suitor, who is one of his employees. The young man heads west, and the daughter tricks her father into a vacation in California. There, after a near drowning, the fired employee rescues her.

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What happens

The Well Sick Man è un cortometraggio muto del 1913 diretto da J. Searle Dawley. Un uomo d'affari, John Norwood, quando scopre che la figlia Marion è innamorata di uno dei suoi dipendenti, licenzia il giovane che allora parte per il West. La ragazza, non volendo rinunciare all'innamorato, convince il padre di aver bisogno di una bella vacanza e se lo porta in California. Lì, mentre sta per annegare, Marion viene salvata da un giovanotto che si rivela essere l'impiegato licenziato. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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