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  • The Fate of Juan Garcia (1917)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Fate of Juan Garcia (1917)
Short | Short, Drama
"-we're just crazy for a picture of you riding one of those wild Western horses-." So read Madge King to her father, the millionaire owner of the San Remo ranch, as she mentioned the name of her eastern chum. "We'll have old Manship bring ...See more"-we're just crazy for a picture of you riding one of those wild Western horses-." So read Madge King to her father, the millionaire owner of the San Remo ranch, as she mentioned the name of her eastern chum. "We'll have old Manship bring out his best cameras," smilingly replied her father. And so it came about that Madge, dressed in one of her smartest riding habits, was ready to be photographed with the ranch house for a background. Juan Garcia, one of the helpers, is instructed to bring Miss King's horse. He is about to comply, when he happens to glance down the road and see an old Mexican woman bearing a jar of water on her head fall in a faint. He helps her out to the road, where a rig is waiting screened from the view of those about the ranch house. Suddenly Garcia is confronted by an armed Mexican. A few seconds later a shot rings out, and when the Kings come to investigate they find a pistol, one chamber discharged, lying in the roadway, but not a trace of their ranch hand. Now Juan Garcia is in reality a revolutionary leader of importance in his own country, and his death is greatly desired by Colonel Sarka, a Slav, and the agent of a Continental clique with large Mexican mining interests. If Colonel Sarka can furnish indisputable proof that Juan Garcia will never lead another raid upon their mining camps they will reward him handsomely. At a point not far distant from the San Remo ranch, the photographer, who is returning to the village after obtaining the picture of Madge on her white horse, is held up by masked men and compelled to bring his cameras in Colonel Sarka's home. The following day Madge rides into the village to get her finished pictures. Having cut his finger the photographer hasn't developed the plates. Madge offers to do it for him. When she holds the developed plate up to the light she is startled to find thereon the face of a dead man. Then the photographer relates his holdup of the previous day; how he had taken a picture in Colonel Sarka's house blindfolded, and had evidently given the Colonel the plate of Madge by mistake. That afternoon. Colonel Sarka's spy holds up the Kings in their home, and makes a clean getaway with the negative plate that Madge had developed. Madge manages to find the trail, and enters Colonel Sarka's headquarters. She is made a prisoner and locked in a cupboard. Roger King and Larry, his superintendent, follow. Larry lets King go on alone, while he rides to the village to get the sheriff. King sets a signal fire going as soon as he discovers Madge's horse. He, too, is knocked out by the conspirators. When Larry and the sheriff arrive there is a battle royal before the Colonel's aides are subdued. Madge bursts out of her stuffy prison in time to wing the Colonel as he leaps off the porch roof with the telltale plate under his arm. The band is rounded up, and Madge returns home with her own picture. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Mar 24, 1917 (United States)

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5 cast members
Name Known for
Marin Sais
Madge King Madge King   See fewer
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Frank Jonasson
Roger King, Her Father Roger King, Her Father   See fewer
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Edward Hearn
Larry Kerwin Larry Kerwin   See fewer
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Robert N. Bradbury
Colonel Sarka (as Ronald Bradbury) Colonel Sarka (as Ronald Bradbury)   See fewer
The Lucky Texan (1934)
Edward Clisbee
Juan Garcia Juan Garcia   See fewer
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