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Rattlesnakes and Gunpowder (1911) Online

Rattlesnakes and Gunpowder (1911) Online
Original Title :
Rattlesnakes and Gunpowder
Genre :
Movie / Comedy / Short / Western
Year :
1911
Directror :
Allan Dwan
Cast :
J. Warren Kerrigan,Pauline Bush,Jack Richardson
Type :
Movie
Rating :
6.4/10
Rattlesnakes and Gunpowder (1911) Online

The Sheriff of Kickup Gulch had long been enamored of the beautiful daughter of the hotel keeper and his suit was progressing favorably when an eastern drummer appeared in the Gulch and started paying marked attentions to the hotel-keeper's daughter. She was very favorably impressed and, finding it difficult to choose between the two after their simultaneous proposal, decided to give them a test of bravery in order to win her hand. The test consisted of thrusting an arm in a rattlesnake's hole and the drummer became panic stricken, for he knew that it meant almost certain death to obey the request. The Sheriff, however, knowing that rattlesnakes always avoid tobacco, sprinkled the hole with tobacco from his pouch and thrust in his arm with impunity. Of course the lady chose the sheriff and left the crestfallen drummer to think it over. Left to his own devices he discovers the trick played by the wily sheriff, and determines to even up the score. He effects an entrance to the general ...
Cast overview:
J. Warren Kerrigan J. Warren Kerrigan - The drummer
Pauline Bush Pauline Bush - The hotel-keeper's daughter
Jack Richardson Jack Richardson - The sheriff

Released as a split reel along with the comedy The Ranch Tenor (1911).