WHERE THE ROAD DIVIDED (1915) is a 1-reeler from Lubin and is a morality tale about the city slicker and a country gal. Directed by and starring Edgar Jones at the end of his association with Lubin (which went bust in 1916).
Jones plays a country schoolmaster who loves his student Rose (Louise Huff, his real-life wife). But she's something of a flirt. She's also loved by country boy Jed (George Gowan) but it seems his love is from afar. Anyway, into this rural patch comes an engineer (Earl Metcalfe) checking out "mineral prospects." But he becomes enamored of Rose and fills her head with visions of the big city. As he's whisking Rose away in his snappy car (with a Pennsylvania plate), they pass Jones and Gowan, who run up and over the mountain pass so they can head them off.
The boys roll a stump down into the road but when the slicker can't shift the stump and the boys come running down the hill, he (for some reason) starts shooting at them and Jed fires back .... but guess who takes the bullet? With her last breath she says "I'm glad you came in time."
Jones plays a country schoolmaster who loves his student Rose (Louise Huff, his real-life wife). But she's something of a flirt. She's also loved by country boy Jed (George Gowan) but it seems his love is from afar. Anyway, into this rural patch comes an engineer (Earl Metcalfe) checking out "mineral prospects." But he becomes enamored of Rose and fills her head with visions of the big city. As he's whisking Rose away in his snappy car (with a Pennsylvania plate), they pass Jones and Gowan, who run up and over the mountain pass so they can head them off.
The boys roll a stump down into the road but when the slicker can't shift the stump and the boys come running down the hill, he (for some reason) starts shooting at them and Jed fires back .... but guess who takes the bullet? With her last breath she says "I'm glad you came in time."