Jean Rescues
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About Jean Rescues
Oscar, engaged to Alice, is jealous of Horace Mann and of her collie, Jean. He finds fault whenever she looks at anyone else. Jean avoids him. Horace seizes up with cramps while swimming and cannot reach shore. Alice asks Oscar to help. He refuses. Jean swims out and brings Horace in exhausted. Alice gives Oscar back the ring. A few days later Horace, Alice, and Jean sit together on the beach.
Cast & crew
More about Jean Rescues
Laurence Trimble directed. Florence Turner plays Alice. Leo Delaney plays Horace Mann. William J. Humphrey plays Oscar. Jean, Trimble’s dog, plays Jean. Vitagraph produced the one-reeler and the General Film Company released it on 31 January 1911. Silent Era says it was shot on location in Maine. A 35mm positive is in the Library of Congress.
Themes
Making
Trimble built the reel around his own dog and shot the swimming rescue on a Maine beach, with Turner and Delaney as the couple the dog saves.
Preservation
A 35mm positive survives at the Library of Congress.
Notes
- The Moving Picture World synopsis is the source of the cramps, the refused rescue, and the returned ring.
- Silent Era adds a possible bit by Adele De Garde as a little girl on the beach.
- Jean is a collie in the story as filmed, and the dog’s own name.
- The Library of Congress holds the 35mm print.
Scenes
- Oscar refuses when Alice asks him to save Horace.
- Jean brings Horace to the sand.
- Alice returns the engagement ring, and the three of them sit on the beach.
