《《The Clock Struck One (Short 1917)》》Storyline
Stewart plays the role of an atypical, pacifist, unarmed Western hero and the usually glamorous seductress Dietrich is a sultry saloon entertainer-trouper post-von Sternberg.They""re rying to steal your money.Yeah, I said steal.The County Commissioners rejected the low bid on the schoolhouse.Why? Well, they""ll tell ya the reason is the job will be done better.The County Commissioners would have you believe that they""re interested in public welfare.They""re interested in welfare, sure, but it""s their own.Stark is pressured to break up his assembly in the one-street town by the Sheriff (A.C.Tillman) due to an ordinance selectively enforced by the local authorities to deliberately disrupt he proceedings and prevent the passing out of handbills - the law prohibited five or more people from assembling together.It was a symbolic ""haves & have-nots"" class-struggle story with prototypical characters.The masses of poverty-stricken, exploited residents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were forced to live in the empty, embattled streets.Earnshaw (Cecil Kellaway).Returning from a trip to the city of Liverpool, the congenial gentleman/farmer brought home a young, dirty-faced gypsy boy (Rex Downing as youth): "a gift of God, although it""s as dark as if it came from the devil.A large HK-Aerial "Bogey" tracked the Command submarine, located off the Bay Area coast - it put a weapon lock on it, and released a depth charge to destroy it.