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  • His Own Story (1916)
  • Short | Adventure, Drama, Short
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His Own Story (1916)
Short | Adventure, Drama, Short
While at the Screen Club one day, Dan Clayton, a moving picture director, offers $50 for a good one-reel story. It is suggested that King Baggot repeat the story of his own experience that he told the previous evening. Mr. Baggot consents ...See moreWhile at the Screen Club one day, Dan Clayton, a moving picture director, offers $50 for a good one-reel story. It is suggested that King Baggot repeat the story of his own experience that he told the previous evening. Mr. Baggot consents and the story is visualized on the screen. King and his friend, Bill Harding, are struggling with smugglers on a deserted island, somewhere near the northern coast of Canada. They are overpowered and locked in a hut. Mag, a girl whom the smugglers have captured and made their drudge, decides to help them. Mag proceeds to dig a hole in the rear of the hut. King and Bill hear a grating sound and ascertain that someone has started to dig them out. Accordingly, they begin digging from their end, and the secret passage is completed in short order. Mag assists the captives to crawl out, and takes council with them as to how they can make their joint escape. The men tackle the sleeping guard and after knocking him senseless, overpower and bind the smuggler who has been left In charge of the smugglers' headquarters. Meanwhile they sight a ship in the distance and signal it with an improvised flag. A boat is lowered from the ship and is sent to rescue them. It turns out that the ship they have signaled is an American yacht that was fitted out for the express purpose of going in search of King and Bill. King, Bill and Mag are rowed toward the yacht, and after they have been hoisted on board the Captain tells King that he had almost given him up for lost. King explains that he and Bill had been shipwrecked and held captive by the smugglers, and is overjoyed that the yacht has arrived in time to save them from their peril, and also to rescue the girl who risked her life in coming to their assistance. In the next scene we see Clayton handing Mr. Baggot a check for $50, declaring that the adventure ought to prove very effective when thrown on the screen. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
George Lessey (as George A. Lessey)
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George Lessey (scenario) (as George A. Lessey)
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Updated Jul 20, 1916
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Jul 20, 1916 (United States)

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King Baggot's primary photo
King Baggot
King Baggot King Baggot   See fewer
Jim Webb, Senator (1914)
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William Bailey
Bill Harding (as William N. Bailey) Bill Harding (as William N. Bailey)   See fewer
The House Without a Key (1926)
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Jane Courtney
Mag Mag   See fewer
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