Friends
About Friends
Dandy Jack (Henry B. Walthall) leaves Dora (Mary Pickford), the orphan at the Golden Creek Inn, to try mining somewhere else. She cries when he will not take her. On the road he meets his friend Grizzly Fallon (Lionel Barrymore). Grizzly reaches the saloon, courts Dora, and she accepts him. He leaves his portrait and goes away for a few days. Jack comes back, bets the bar he can win her again, and she embraces him. He sees Grizzly's picture, gives her up, and pays the bet. The two men drink to Grizzly's wedding.
Cast & crew
More about Friends
D. W. Griffith wrote and directed it. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Biograph released it on 23 September 1912. One listing gives 13 minutes and another 17. Harry Carey plays the prospector Bob Kyne. Charles Hill Mailes and Elmer Booth are also in the cast. The setting is a California mining camp, played near Fort Lee.
Themes
Making
Bitzer shot the saloon and the road out of the camp so the two miners can pass each other without a title explaining the trade.
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the Golden Creek saloon and the road where Jack and Grizzly meet. A Fort Lee location is recorded.
Preservation
The Biograph short survives. Running times of 13 and 17 minutes are both listed.
Notes
- Dora lives above the Golden Creek Inn saloon.
- The bet is Jack's, made to the men at the bar, that he can get Dora back.
- He pays the bet after he sees the portrait, instead of fighting Grizzly.
- Carey is not one of the two suitors. He plays Bob Kyne.
- Griffith is the writer as well as the director.
Scenes
- Dora cries when Jack will not take her with him.
- She accepts Grizzly and keeps his picture.
- Jack sees the picture, pays his bet, and the two men drink to the wedding.
