The Bargain
About The Bargain
Jim Stokes, the Two-Gun Man, robs a stage and is wounded getting away. Nell Brent and her brother Phil take him in. He falls for Nell and wants to quit. Sheriff Bud Walsh finds him. A surviving version closes on titles that the sheriff and the bandit both paid for their crimes.
Cast & crew
More about The Bargain
Reginald Barker directed. William Clifford and Thomas H. Ince wrote it. Robert Newhard and Joseph H. August photographed. New York Motion Picture produced it. Paramount released it on December 3, 1914. William S. Hart's first feature. He plays Stokes. Clara Williams plays Nell. J. Barney Sherry plays Phil. J. Frank Burke plays the sheriff. Joseph J. Dowling plays the Reverend Joshua Wilkes.
Themes
Look
Robert Newhard and Joseph H. August shot the stage holdup and the ranch.
Preservation
A print survives. Named to the National Film Registry in 2010.
Notes
- Kay-Bee was the Ince brand inside New York Motion Picture. Paramount distributed the feature.
- Lewis Stone is also billed.
- Named to the National Film Registry in 2010. Hell's Hinges, an earlier Hart selection, went on in 1994.
- The closing titles on the surviving copy judge both the sheriff and Stokes.
Awards
- National Film Registry (2010)
Scenes
- Stokes is carried in wounded after the stage robbery.
- The last titles say the sheriff and the bandit both paid.
