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The Heart of a Bandit
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Harry Carey [Texas Pete, the bandit], Charles H. West (Charles West) [the half-breed], Violet Reid (Violet Reed) [the rancher’s wife]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 22 February 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Western.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? With a price upon his head. Texas Pete takes to the open country. A half-breed learns of the reward, trails him, and, coming upon the bandit asleep, is afraid to take him single-handed. He goes for aid, leaving behind him a copy of the advertisement by which he has recognized his man. Awaking Texas Pete finds the paper, pockets it and decamps. His horse tiring, he abandons the animal and seeks cover in a rancher’s barn. The half-breed, coming to the ranch, frightens the rancher’s wife. She seizes her husband’s rifle. The half-breed snatches up her child, and holding it as a shield, backs into the barn. She drops the rifle and rushes after him. Texas Pete, hidden in the hay, shoots the half-breed. The rancher, hearing the shot and seeing his rifle on the ground, seizes it and shoots the bandit, who thus gives his life for another. Dying, he asks that the reward be paid to the child’s mother.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 26 January 2025.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
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