With the Enemy's Help (1912)

3.0/10 13 min Drama Western

Overview

A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.

Cast

Charles West

The Prospector

Blanche Sweet

The Prospector's Wife

Mary Pickford

Faro Kate

Charles Hill Mailes

Faro Kate's Husband

Edna Foster

The Prospector's Daughter

J. Jiquel Lanoe

The Claim Assessor

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