Best Western Movies of 1912

1.

The Prospector

3.0
4.0/10 IMDB

On his way to file a claim, a lone prospector stops overnight with a settler and his family. The miner little suspects that his host plots to steal the gold. But the settler’s daughter overhears the plan and warns the visitor just in time. The couple escapes with the woman’s younger sister. In store-bought finery suggesting new wealth, they return to the scene of the attempted crime and make peace with the settler. “We’ll work the mine together,” promises the prospector.

Starring: Fred Church, Arthur Mackley, Evelyn Selbie, Audrey Hanna ..
Directed by: Arthur Mackley
Release date: 1912-12-12
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Massacre
2.

The Massacre

2.7
6.5/10 IMDB

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

Starring: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Alfred Paget, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Harron, Dell Henderson, Frank Opperman, Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell ..
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Release date: 1912-12-19
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Her Indian Hero
3.

Her Indian Hero

2.7
6.3/10 IMDB

The Chief's son, Silver Water, returns from college and is met at the station by the tribe. The Indians make merry to celebrate his homecoming. Hal Benton, an easterner, rides on to ask his way to the hotel, where he is stopping with some friends, among them his fiancée, Veda Mead, and her father. Knowing that the Indian ceremonies will interest his friends, Hal obtains permission to come the next day and bring his friends. The Chief calls Morning Star, an Indian maiden, telling his son that she is to be his squaw. Silver Water is pleased with her. The next day Hal Benton and his friends arrive. While the others inspect the camp, Veda Mead amuses herself with Silver Water and ere long is thoroughly infatuated with him, while the Indian's vanity is touched by the attentions of the society coquette, and he promises to meet her the next day. Their little tete-a-tete is cut short by the entrance of Morning Star.

Starring: Jack Conway, George Gebhardt, Dorothy Davenport, Victoria Forde, Russell Bassett, Eugenie Forde ..
Directed by: Al Christie, Jack Conway, Milton J. Fahrney
Release date: 1912-04-16
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Craven
4.

The Craven

2.5
5.4/10 IMDB

A short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.

Starring: Robert Thornby, Anne Schaefer, Eagle Eye, Charles Bennett, Fred Burns ..
Directed by: Rollin S. Sturgeon
Release date: 1912-04-18
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Invaders
5.

The Invaders

2.5
6.1/10 IMDB

The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints, and the surveyors are killed by the Indians. A vicious Indian war ensues, culminating in an Indian attack on an army fort.

Starring: Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin, Ann Little, Ray Myers, William Eagle Shirt, Art Acord ..
Directed by: Francis Ford, Thomas H. Ince
Release date: 1912-11-29
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Heart of an Indian
6.

The Heart of an Indian

2.5
6.4/10 IMDB

When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby. The white mother goes to the Indian camp to look for her child and is captured by the Indians who plan to torture her. The settlers attack the Indian camp, destroying it completely and killing the braves, while the Indian wife returns the baby to the white woman and allows her to escape. The Indian wife mourns her baby at its grave, unaware of the destruction of the Indian camp.

Starring: Francis Ford, J. Barney Sherry, Ann Little, Art Acord, Lillian Christy, Grace Cunard, William Eagle Shirt, Charles K. French ..
Directed by: Thomas H. Ince
Release date: 1912-03-01
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Frozen on Love's Trail
7.

Frozen on Love's Trail

2.5
5.5/10 IMDB

A white girl, living with her father at the barracks near an Indian reservation, is very kind to a half-breed Indian. He falls in love with her but she does not encourage him. However, she one day is about to accept a trinket from him, when one of the soldiers, who is also in love with her, intimates something that does not sound nice to a good girl's ears.

Starring: Budd Buster ..
Directed by: Alice Guy-Blaché
Release date: 1912-01-28
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Friends
8.

Friends

2.5
5.5/10 IMDB

The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.

Starring: Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey, Charles Hill Mailes, Elmer Booth, Frank Evans, Robert Harron, Adolph Lestina, Walter Miller ..
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Release date: 1912-09-22
Best Western Movies of 1912 : At the End of the Trail
9.

At the End of the Trail

2.4
5.2/10 IMDB

A short Western about the tragic romance between a sheriff and the daughter of a horse thief.

Starring: George Stanley, Robert Thornby, Edna Fisher ..
Directed by: Rollin S. Sturgeon
Release date: 1912-06-28
10.

The Greater Love

2.3
4.6/10 IMDB

A romantic Western in which a notorious criminal who is in love with the fiancée of the sheriff digs his own sentence by reuniting the sheriff, whom he has wounded, with the girl.

Starring: Robert Thornby, Fred Burns, Edna Fisher, Charles Bennett ..
Directed by: Rollin S. Sturgeon
Release date: 1912-05-16
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
11.

Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape

2.3
4.8/10 IMDB

While looking for work, Broncho Billy meets a girl and falls in love with her. Broncho is then accused of horse theft by a jealous lover of the girl. At the moment that he is to be hanged, Broncho’s beloved girl comes to his rescue.

Starring: Gilbert M. Anderson, Vedah Bertram, Arthur Mackley, Brinsley Shaw, Fred Church, Victor Potel, Harry Todd, Jack Roberts, Patrick Rooney, Willis Elder ..
Directed by: Gilbert M. Anderson
Release date: 1912-07-05
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Algie, the Miner
12.

Algie, the Miner

2.3
5.7/10 IMDB

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

Starring: Billy Quirk, Mary Foy ..
Directed by: Edward Warren, Harry Schenck, Alice Guy-Blaché
Release date: 1912-02-28
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Two Little Rangers
13.

Two Little Rangers

2.2
5.5/10 IMDB

"Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death.

Starring: Vinnie Burns, Blanche Cornwall ..
Directed by: Alice Guy-Blaché
Release date: 1912-08-06
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Under Burning Skies
14.

Under Burning Skies

2.2
5.3/10 IMDB

Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.

Starring: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Christy Cabanne, Kate Toncray, Charles West, Claire McDowell, Robert Harron, Alfred Paget, Edwin August, Charles Hill Mailes ..
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Release date: 1912-02-21
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Colonel's Escape
15.

The Colonel's Escape

2.2
4.7/10 IMDB

A short Western in which a colonel and a resistance fighter help each other out in times of war.

Starring: Carlyle Blackwell, Alice Joyce, Knute Rahm, Karl Formes ..
Directed by: George Melford
Release date: 1912-06-23
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress
16.

Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress

2.2
5.3/10 IMDB

"Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress" (1912, 14 minutes) is a comedy-drama about yet another girl from the East who doesn't need to be protected from the local dangers. Broncho Billy plays a passive role, and even takes a bullet when a jealous villain tries to eliminate him from the new teacher's dance card. Filmed in the wilds of Fairfax, California and at Essanay Studios in San Rafael.

Starring: Gilbert M. Anderson, Brinsley Shaw, Augustus Carney, Arthur Mackley, Fred Church, R. Henry Grey, Louis Morisette, Victor Potel, Harry Todd ..
Directed by: Gilbert M. Anderson
Release date: 1912-02-02
Best Western Movies of 1912 : A Girl of the West
17.

A Girl of the West

2.1
4.8/10 IMDB

A Western drama in which a gang steals John’s horse and then kidnaps Polly when she tries to warn the new buyer.

Starring: Tom Powers, Helen Case, Lillian Christy, Tom Fortune, Robert Thornby, Helen Galvin, Fred Burns ..
Release date: 1912-01-20
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Life of Buffalo Bill
18.

The Life of Buffalo Bill

2.1
4.5/10 IMDB

While on a vacation, an elderly Buffalo Bill dreams of his adventures as a young man when he scouted for the cavalry, fought Indians and captured outlaws.

Starring: Buffalo Bill Cody ..
Directed by: Paul Panzer
Release date: 1912-04-01
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Kings of the Forest
19.

Kings of the Forest

2.1
4.2/10 IMDB

A romantic drama that unfolds in part in British India. Sona, who leaves home with her ??child because of the quarrel between her two suitors, is threatened along the way by wild animals. The quarrelling suitors put their dispute behind them, and rescue her.

Starring: Tom Santschi, Betty Harte, Frank Richardson, Anna Dodge, Roy Watson, Baby Lillian Wade, Florence Dye ..
Directed by: Colin Campbell
Release date: 1912-11-11
20.

The Post Telegrapher

2.0
5.3/10 IMDB

Bob Evans, a telegraph operator, together with a group of soldiers gets ambushed by Sioux Indians. Wounded, he climbs into a telegraph pole and asks through the telegraph wires for help from the fort. Bob's fiancée Edith comes along with the soldiers. The soldiers find only dead bodies and decide to chase the Indians. Edith stays behind to search for Bob. She finds him and together they return to the fort. The Sioux then attack the fort, but when the situation seems hopeless, the army returns and the Indians are expelled.

Starring: Francis Ford, Ann Little, Ray Myers, Lillian Christy, Jack Conway, Mildred Harris ..
Directed by: Francis Ford, Thomas H. Ince
Release date: 1912-04-30
Best Western Movies of 1912 : A Wife of the Hills
21.

A Wife of the Hills

2.0
4.7/10 IMDB

Bart McGrew, a notorious outlaw, lives in the hills with his young wife. McGrew's capture will be rewarded by the local lawmen, so Dan Trent acts to secure his arrest. McGrew suspects his wife and Dan Trent are committing treacherous acts against him.

Starring: Gilbert M. Anderson, Arthur Mackley, Brinsley Shaw, Vedah Bertram ..
Directed by: Gilbert M. Anderson
Release date: 1912-07-19
22.

The Signal Fire

2.0
5.1/10 IMDB

A short romantic drama in which a captain and his wife are separated by a shipwreck. The woman ends up on a desert island with another man, and they have a relationship. When they are saved by the captain, he decides to stay behind on the island, alone.

Starring: Herbert Berry, Leo Delaney, Tefft Johnson, Edith Storey ..
Directed by: William V. Ranous
Release date: 1912-09-25
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Tourists
23.

The Tourists

1.9
5.0/10 IMDB

A group of tourists spend too long checking out the Indian Arts and Crafts at the station and miss their train. While waiting, Normand in a picture hat and black outfit, wanders off and takes an interest in Chief Evans, precipitating the usual chase, here by ax wielding Indian wives.

Starring: Mabel Normand ..
Directed by: Mack Sennett
Release date: 1912-08-04
24.

Parson Sue

1.9
4.8/10 IMDB

A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road when they suddenly run into the one-horse shay of a female parson, they keel over in surprise. Right after her arrival the boys begin to lay plans to get in right, while the parson loses no time in starting a campaign for the defeat of Satan. She begins by posting a sign near the town horse trough to the effect that "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." Of course the boys see the sign and immediately there is a sudden disposition among them to make use of soap, water and brush. One cowboy in particular is very much in love with the parson. He shows his affection only too plainly, and so the boys decide to play a trick on him. Their practical joke unintentionally is not only the means of frustrating a plot against the parson, but it brings the parson and her lover together.

Starring: Billy Quirk, Blanche Cornwall, Darwin Karr, Gladden James ..
Directed by: Alice Guy-Blaché
Release date: 1912-01-17
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Tomboy on Bar Z
25.

The Tomboy on Bar Z

1.9
4.6/10 IMDB

A romantic Western in which John saves his beloved Mary when she is about to marry a criminal.

Starring: Virginia True Boardman, Jay Hanna, Brinsley Shaw, Fred Church, Augustus Carney, Roland Totheroh, Texas George Briggs, Gilbert M. Anderson, True Boardman, Frank Pementel ..
Directed by: Gilbert M. Anderson
Release date: 1912-10-21
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Broncho Billy's Last Hold-Up
26.

Broncho Billy's Last Hold-Up

1.8
4.7/10 IMDB

A girl helps Broncho Billy to hide when the sheriff comes looking for him. When a while later he finds her and her mother unconscious, he holds up a stagecoach to bring them to a doctor. The sheriff, still on Billy's track, shoots him in front of the doctor's practice.

Starring: Gilbert M. Anderson, Vedah Bertram, Harry Todd, Arthur Mackley, Julia Mackley, Fred Church ..
Directed by: Gilbert M. Anderson
Release date: 1912-08-12
27.

The Mormon

1.6
7.0/10 IMDB

Western about a Mormon falling in love.

Starring: J. Warren Kerrigan, Pauline Bush ..
Directed by: Allan Dwan
Release date: 1912-01-01
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Custer's Last Fight
28.

Custer's Last Fight

1.5
6.1/10 IMDB

The silent film Custer's Last Fight is the first movie about George Armstrong Custer and his final stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Starring: Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, William Eagle Shirt, J. Barney Sherry, Art Acord, Ann Little, Lillian Christy, Charles K. French ..
Directed by: Francis Ford
Release date: 1912-10-03
29.

My Hero

1.4
6.2/10 IMDB

Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite doubtful if ever love could equal the accentuated bliss and anguish of these two. She refused to eat for her hero and for her he bore the marks of battle, an eye made black by a cruel parent's fist. Tired of such an unsympathetic world, they sought the wilderness, where, had it not been for Indian Charlie, these two "babes in the wood" would have ended their dream in a manner quite too disagreeable to think of.

Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron, Walter P. Lewis, Kate Bruce, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey ..
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Release date: 1912-12-12
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
30.

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

1.4
6.0/10 IMDB

The Goddess, the prettiest and best natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are slim for Blue-grass Pete has won her affections, he having at an opportune moment saved her from the fangs of a snake which was about to attack her.

Starring: Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Dorothy Bernard, W. Chrystie Miller, Charles Hill Mailes, Harry Hyde, Christy Cabanne, William A. Carroll, Frank Evans, Charles Gorman ..
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Release date: 1912-03-25
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Iola's Promise
31.

Iola's Promise

1.4
5.8/10 IMDB

Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.

Starring: Mary Pickford, Alfred Paget, Frank Evans, Dorothy Bernard, Frank Opperman, Kate Toncray, Charles Hill Mailes, J. Jiquel Lanoe ..
Directed by: D. W. Griffith
Release date: 1912-03-14
Best Western Movies of 1912 : A Life for a Kiss
32.

A Life for a Kiss

1.3
5.6/10 IMDB

Jim Richeson was a haunted man, but he smiled carelessly as he handled the sign offering a reward for his capture, dead or alive. He smiled again as he wheeled his horse and galloped off down the road, waving a satirical adieu to the posse. A pretty mountain girl with pail in hand, stood at the pump when Jim rode up. He took the pail from her, drank deeply, and then, as an afterthought, seized her and kissed her heartily. Then he leisurely mounted his horse and galloped off. Furious at the insult, the girl rushed for a gun, only to meet her lover, just as he rounded the bunkhouse. That person at once flew into a passion and gave hot chase to the vanishing bandit, vowing to have his life. Meanwhile, the girl, at the head of a posse, followed less swiftly. A royal battle took place in the mountains. Dick and Jim, sheltered behind the great rocks, tried every expedient known to the West in an effort to kill each other.

Starring: J. Warren Kerrigan, Pauline Bush, Jack Richardson ..
Directed by: Allan Dwan
Release date: 1912-08-01
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Deputy's Peril
33.

The Deputy's Peril

1.3
5.2/10 IMDB

A silent Western and a love story. When the secret agent Marshall tries to nab a gang of counterfeiters, he falls in love with the daughter of the gang’s leader.

Starring: Edgar Jones, Clara Williams ..
Directed by: Francis J. Grandon
Release date: 1912-08-16
Best Western Movies of 1912 : A Temporary Truce
34.

A Temporary Truce

1.2
5.2/10 IMDB

A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian man. His son (Robert Harron) vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. The chief, however, knows better and tells him that revenge is useless. Robert Harron disobeys and mobilizes all young warriors for battle. The plot thickens. The prospector and the Mexican, who holds his wife captive, start shooting each other. However, when the Indians attack, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.

Starring: Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, Blanche Sweet, W. Chrystie Miller, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Alfred Paget, Jack Pickford, Charles Gorman, Frank Opperman ..
Directed by: D. W. Griffith
Release date: 1912-06-10
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Renegades
35.

The Renegades

1.2
4.8/10 IMDB

Short western, in which a hotheaded prospector argues with his wife about her housekeeping skills. She decides to leave him, and travels with a passing prospector who offers to accompany her through the mountains. However, when they are attacked by Indians, they are rescued by her husband. Eventualy the husband is killed in a second attack.

Starring: Edgar Jones, Clara Williams, Ferdinand Tidmarsh, Harry Berger, Ed Heptenstall ..
Release date: 1912-09-24
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Making a Man of Her
36.

Making a Man of Her

1.1
5.1/10 IMDB

In order to get a job as a cook on a ranch, a young girl disguises herself as a boy. Problems arise when several of the young women at the ranch fall in love with "him".

Starring: Louise Glaum, Eddie Lyons, Donald MacDonald, Lee Moran, Russell Bassett, Margaret Manners, Dolly Larkin ..
Directed by: Al Christie
Release date: 1912-11-01
37.

Juan and Juanita

0.9
4.0/10 IMDB

Juan leaves for Rawlins, Arizona, where he wants to find a job so he can marry his fiancee Juanita, because Juanita's mother says a man must have quite substantial savings before he can marry her daughter. Juan takes a job with the railways. When a former employee raids the money train on which Juan is working, he manages to escape with the aid of a trolley, as a result of which the attack can be thwarted. For his courageous act Juan gets two thousand guilders as a reward.

Starring: Edwin Carewe, Edna Payne, Earl Metcalfe ..
Directed by: Wilbert Melville
Release date: 1912-11-04
38.

The Loafer

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

The forceful reformation of a lazy scrounger.

Starring: Arthur Mackley, Julia Mackley, Marguerite Todd, Harry Todd, Margaret Joslin, Brinsley Shaw, Kite Robinson, Augustus Carney, Victor Potel ..
Directed by: Arthur Mackley
Release date: 1912-01-20
39.

The Bank Cashier

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Playful girl locks boyfriend in the bank vault and then has to ride for help when she learns he doesn't have the combination. In the meantime the vault gets robbed with her boyfriend in it.

Starring: Edgar Jones, Clara Williams, Francis J. Grandon ..
Directed by: Francis J. Grandon
Release date: 1912-09-04
40.

The Deserter

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

A deserting soldier encounters a wagon train of settlers. When they are faced with an Indian attack, he risks court martial to return to the Army post for help.

Starring: Francis Ford, William Clifford, J. Barney Sherry, Lillian Christy, Ray Myers, Winnie Baldwin, Clifford Smith ..
Directed by: Thomas H. Ince
Release date: 1912-03-15
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Broncho Billy's Gratitude
41.

Broncho Billy's Gratitude

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Dan Hart, a worthless good-for-nothing, takes the wedding ring from his wife's finger to pawn, and spends the money for drink, leaving a note saying he has given up all claim to her as his wife. Mrs. Hart takes her little girl and leaves for the west.

Starring: Gilbert M. Anderson, Vedah Bertram, Brinsley Shaw, Audrey Hanna ..
Directed by: Gilbert M. Anderson
Release date: 1912-06-18
42.

An Indian Outcast

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Black Wolf, a brave, wants Whispering Water to be his squaw. Whispering Water is afraid of this taciturn Indian and refuses. He tries to carry her off but is stopped by another Indian, Brave Heart, and there is a savage light in which Black Wolf is worsted. He appeals to the chief to banish Brave Heart.

Starring: Charles Inslee, Wallace Reid, William Steele, Chief Harvey, Ravena, Margarita Fischer, Edward H. Philbrook, Harry Tenbrook ..
Release date: 1912-11-26
Best Western Movies of 1912 : His Only Son
43.

His Only Son

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Bob Madden returns home slightly intoxicated and his father angrily commands him to leave the place and shift for himself. The next morning he goes, leaving his father a note: "Dear Dad, I am going out West and try to make a man of myself. I hope some day you will be proud of me. Your son. Bob."

Starring: Wallace Reid, Dorothy Davenport, Jack Conway, Victoria Forde, Hoot Gibson ..
Directed by: Jack Conway, Milton J. Fahrney
Release date: 1912-10-09
Best Western Movies of 1912 : The Outcast
44.

The Outcast

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

The prologue shows the life of a trapper, living in the solitude of the forest. He digs a bear trap, which is covered with boughs and grass. An Indian girl, armed with a bow and arrow, creeps close to a wild turkey, which she brings down. As she runs forward to gather up her prey she falls into the trap. Evans, the trapper, finds her there and on lifting her from the pit, finds that she has sprained her ankle, and takes her to his cabin, and makes her as comfortable as possible. As the shades of evening fall and the pain subsides, the girl drops into a slumber, and loath to awaken her, Evans leaves her in possession of his cabin and, wrapped in a blanket, sleeps outside. In the morning, the girl having recovered sufficiently, he lifts her to his horse, and mounting behind her, proceeds to the Indian camp. On the way he is attacked by a trio of Indians, who fire at him from behind a tree, and the trapper brings down one of his assailants.

Starring: Francis Ford, Ann Little, J. Barney Sherry, William Eagle Shirt, Art Acord ..
Directed by: Thomas H. Ince
Release date: 1912-06-08
45.

The Smuggler

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

The story revolves around a smuggler (René Navarre) who rescues a young lady trapped in the canyon. Some rock-climbing shots at the beginning of the film.

Starring: René Navarre ..
Directed by: Georges-André Lacroix
Release date: 1912-01-01
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Love and Friendship
46.

Love and Friendship

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

A Western drama about two brothers who are in love with the same girl. When one of them wrongly thinks she has chosen for the other, he leaves for Mexico.

Release date: 1912-01-01
Best Western Movies of 1912 : A Cowboy's Best Girl
47.

A Cowboy's Best Girl

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Alice Marson, an eastern young lady, becomes engaged to Glen Arnold, a young man just out of college. Girl-like, she rushes to her friend, Lucy Starr, and tells of the engagement. Lucy, who also had designs on Glen, congratulates Alice, but determines to break up the match.

Starring: Rex De Rosselli, Bob Perry, William Duncan, Tom Mix, Frank J. Carroll, Olive Mix, Myrtle Stedman, Charles Canterbery, Florence Dye ..
Directed by: Otis Thayer
Release date: 1912-01-16
Best Western Movies of 1912 : Heredity
48.

Heredity

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the Trevors suffer severe financial reverses, and Nedda is yanked from the luxury of her ancestral home in Britain to be raised on New York's Lower East Side. Ten years later, the grown-up Nedda stands accused of the murder of her mother.

Starring: Harry Carey, Madge Kirby, Jack Pickford, Walter P. Lewis, Kate Bruce, W.C. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Christy Cabanne, Robert Harron, Alfred Paget ..
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Release date: 1912-11-04
Best Western Movies of 1912 : When the Heart Calls
49.

When the Heart Calls

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Dick Lee, while hunting, meets James Gordon, an old rancher, who invites him to his cabin. Here he meets the rancher's daughter Mary. They soon become fast friends, and the girl's heart is almost broken when, at the end of the boy's holidays, he is to return to the city. Mary makes him promise to write. Back in the city, Dick tries to forget the country girl, and, as he is engaged to Lillian West, life is very gay indeed. Somehow, he cannot forget the little girl back on the ranch. The promised letter, however, is never written. Mary looks every day for the letter that does not come, and her father is very sad to see her pine away. At last he cannot stand it longer, and makes up his mind to go to the city and hunt Dick up.

Starring: Lee Moran, Russell Bassett, Louise Glaum, Victoria Forde ..
Directed by: Al Christie
Release date: 1912-08-19
50.

The Girls and the Chaperone

0.0
0.0/10 IMDB

Dick Martin, foreman of the Circle E ranch, tells Colonel Gray that his mother is coming to visit them for a short time. The Colonel thinks it's a fine opportunity to invite his three nieces from the city, as Dick's mother could act as their chaperone.

Starring: Russell Bassett, Donald MacDonald, Eugenie Forde, Lee Moran, William A. Carroll, Louise Glaum, Dolly Larkin, Victoria Forde ..
Directed by: Al Christie
Release date: 1912-09-06

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