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On the Night Stage
Director: Reginald Barker (Dir)
Release Date:   25 Apr 1915
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Cast: William S. Hart  ("Silent" Texas Smith)
  Rhea Mitchell  (Belle Shields)
  Robert Edeson  (Alexander Austin, the "Sky Pilot")
 

Summary: Belle Shields, the local dance hall queen, is the sweetheart of bandit "Silent" Texas Smith until she becomes fascinated with Alexander Austin, the new town parson. The jealous Texas gets into a drunken saloon brawl over Belle, but when the preacher comes to Texas' aid, the two rivals become fast friends. Belle marries Austin, but on a visit to a nearby town, she slips back into her old ways and stops into a dance hall, where she arouses the passions of dandy Jack Malone. Realizing her mistake, she returns home but receives a letter from Jack stating that he will come for her that night. She confides in Texas, who intercepts Jack on the night stage and kills him in a gunfight. 

Distribution Company: Mutual Film Corp.; A Mutual Masterpicture
Production Company: New York Motion Picture Corp.
Director: Reginald Barker (Dir)
Producer: Thomas H. Ince (Supv)
Writer: C. Gardner Sullivan (Scen)
  Thomas H. Ince (Scen)

Subject Major: Bandits
  Clergy
  Dance hall girls
  Friendship
  Moral reformation
 
Subject Minor: Dandies
  Gunfights
  Infidelity
  Rivalry
  Stagecoaches

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