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  2. Old King Coal

Old King Coal

1916
20m
Drama
Adventure

Status

Released

Release

1916

Runtime

20m

Storyline

"A Gripping Episode of the Methods Used by the Coal Trust to Keep Up the Price of this Necessary Commodity."

Stone assures Weisner, head of the Coal Trust, that Larnigan will never start for Pennsylvania. Weisner is skeptical and informs Stone that if he does go he may be killed, as a strike is in progress. Weisner, a little later in Maxwell's home repeats the statement of it being an easy matter to kill Tom should be come to the coal country. Dorothy Maxwell and Kitty Rockford overhear the conversation. They decide to go to the coal country and lend their aid to Tom. 8th chapter in the Graft serial.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
20m
Jan 29, 1916
Languages
No Language
Director
George Lessey
George Lessey
Production
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

10 Cast Members

Harry Carey

Harry Carey

Tom Larnigan

Jane Novak

Jane Novak

Dorothy Maxwell

Glen White

Glen White

Stanford Stone

Mina Cunard

Mina Cunard

Kitty Rockford

Hector V. Sarno

Carl Weisner

Nanine Wright

Mrs. Larnigan

Mark Fenton

Roger Maxwell

E.P. Evers

Dunn

Jack Connolly

Ben Travers

Malcolm Blevins

Jack Stevens

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