Taming of Wild Bill, The

Release Date:   July 07, 1916
Distributor:   Mutual
Reels:   2
Brand:   Mustang
Genre:   Western Romance
Director:   William Bertram
Writer(s):   Karl Coolidge, Karl Coolidge,
Confirmed Cast:   Jack Richardson, Nita Davis, Hugh Bennett,
Story Summary:
Bill is just an ordinary happy-go-lucky cowboy when sober, but a few drinks of liquor will transform him into the wildest kind of human being. Riding furiously through the little camp of White River, he sent its citizens into hiding. Even the sheriff he terrorized, taking his gun away from him, and departing with the sheriff's badge pinned on his own coat. But in the morning he was sober again, and allowed the sheriff to escort him to the jail without a pretense of resistance. About this time there came to White River an itinerant dispenser of the Gospel, Bronson, with his daughter, Rita. And Rita started out to distribute circulars announcing the first of a series of meetings. In the jail Bill finds a bottle of liquor on a Mexican prisoner, and soon has it under his belt. The jail at once became too small for him, and breaking out, he started on another rampage. Entering the saloon, he put those present to rout - all except Rita, who had come there to distribute her circulars and undaunted, she came up to Bill and handed him one. With the evening Bill hears the music of the services, and concludes to break the meeting up, but Rita sees him, and coming outside, pleads with him to go away, and he consents. Returning to the saloon, Bill lines up all its inmates and forces them to attend the services of Bronson. And as Bronson urges those who have sinned to become Christians, Bill thinks of the days when his mother used to read to him, and how she told him that if he would only heed the advice of the Bible, that he would never come to harm. It came to pass that by the time the series of the Bronson's meetings were over, Bill had taken the pledge, and to Rita, he states that he intends to live up to his promises, and that if she only would allow him to write to her, that perhaps some day he may have something personal to ask her. - Moving Picture World, July 15, 1916
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