Country: United States
Director: Edward
Warren.
Cast: Barney
Gilmore (Brennan O'Malley).
Black and white;
silent; 3 reels; format, 35mm.
Copy: Library of
Congress (2,623 ft, incomplete, with Dutch inter-titles, Brennan De
Straatroover); Nederlands Filmuseum.
Production
company: Solax Co.
Summary: The
film carries the slogan: ‘He Stole From the Rich to Give to the Poor’. It is a
story of the ‘nobleman-bandit’, Brennan O'Malley, who is captured and
imprisoned, but an attempt to drown him through flooding his cell fails.
Recaptured after his escape from prison, he overwhelms a soldier and escapes
again. He then holds up Lord Hastings and changes into his clothes. He escapes
through a secret passage with Betty, Lady Lorrequer whom he had earlier rescued
and with whom he had fallen in love. The couple cross a chasm with the aid of a
human chain to elude Lord Hastings' troop of soldiers. In the pursuit, Hastings
falls into the sea and is killed, while Brennan and Betty escape by ship.
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