The Girl from the East - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Edna Benson is left an orphan in an eastern city. She finds herself nearly penniless. John Benson, her uncle, who owns a desert ranch, writes her to come west and encloses her expense money. Benson's ranch lies some ten miles from the ...See moreEdna Benson is left an orphan in an eastern city. She finds herself nearly penniless. John Benson, her uncle, who owns a desert ranch, writes her to come west and encloses her expense money. Benson's ranch lies some ten miles from the railroad through a desert country. On the morning of Edna's expected arrival Benson drives over. The girl has missed her train. The night previous the citizens of Mesa, a small desert town some thirty miles from Benson's ranch, have grown tired of a series of shooting affrays and have organized a vigilance committee. Corse Hazard, a crooked gambler, kills one of his customers in a fair fight, and immediately the vigilantes warn Corse to leave town, giving him twenty-four hours to make preparations. Corse Hazard leaves Mesa outfitted for the desert the same morning that Edna misses her train at the junction. He steers a leisurely course for another mining camp beyond the Benson ranch. Edna reaches Cerro at five o'clock in the evening. The train crew try to persuade her to go on to the next station, but she is confident that Benson will meet the train. Hazard goes into camp some twenty miles out of Mesa for the night. The girl spends a night of terror in the lonely deserted flag station. The following morning at dawn she strikes out for the ranch afoot. That morning Bradin, a road agent, his horse having cast a shoe, flirts with death by going at dawn into Mesa to have the blacksmith reshoe his horse. He is seen by the sheriff, who collects a posse and tries to arrest him, but Bradin escapes into the desert in a running battle. Edna is lost in the desert. She sights Hazard approaching and signals him. He sees the girl is helpless and defenseless and tells her that he is one of the Benson's men and he will take her to the ranch. Instead he takes her to a deserted desert shack near the Benson ranch. The girl battles with him. Jim Brandin's horse falls nearby and Brandin makes his way to the shack as a place of refuge from the sheriff's posse. Brandin is just in time to save Edna. A moment later the posse arrives and capture Brandin. The sheriff resolves to spend the night at Benson's ranch. That night while the sheriff sleeps Edna steals his handcuff key and frees Brandin in gratitude for what he has done for her. A week later she gets a letter from him telling that he has reformed, etc. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less