One Who Passed by - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Willard Wright is a rich broker who has a wife upon whom he lavishes much money and care. But one day she finds this life of idleness and luxury too slow and she runs away with a ne'er-do-well. This breaks Willard's heart. He pays no ...See moreWillard Wright is a rich broker who has a wife upon whom he lavishes much money and care. But one day she finds this life of idleness and luxury too slow and she runs away with a ne'er-do-well. This breaks Willard's heart. He pays no attention to business and travels the road to oblivion and disgrace. He finally becomes a tramp, begging for his food from the farm houses and inns that he passes along the route. One day he stops at the home of Jed Hawkins, a rich but miserly farmer. Mary, Hawkins' wife, feeds Wright. Her husband come home and tells Wright he must work for his food and orders him out to the wood pile. To please the woman and to make it easier for her, Willard agrees to do this. He hears Mary pleading with her husband to buy her a new dress at a sale they are having in town; he also hears Hawkins refuse, as he folds a heap of bills into his pocket. Seeing how miserable the woman is, Willard determines to get the dress for her. He follows Hawkins, holds him up, extracts twenty dollars from the roll, and going off to town, he buys the gown and gets back with it. Hawkins has been found by the constable and a posse starts out after the tramp. He is spotted, a bullet strikes his arm, but he keeps on until he reaches Hawkins' home. He deposits the dress on the steps and steals off. The posse, tracing the drops of blood, come up to the house. Hawkins sees the parcel, and as he picks it up angrily, the dress falls out. Mary comes from the house and sees her husband standing there with her much longed-for dress in his arms. She takes it from him and thanks him and calls him the best husband in the world. Dismissing the posse, Hawkins, who now understands why the tramp took the money, accepts Mary's thanks and says nothing. And Willard, watching this from the other side of the house, shakes his head and goes his way. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less