That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)

That Chink at Golden Gulch

1910

Drama Western

Synopsis

In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in a California mining town, Charlie is tormented by local men but is finally befriended by a young woman and her cowboy sweetheart. One of Charlie’s tormentors is a well-dressed idler and, secretly, a bandit who robs the mail. The cowboy and the bandit become rivals for the girl’s affections. Suspicious of the bandit, Charlie follows him, observes him robbing a mail-carrier, and contrives to capture him, cutting off his pigtail to bind the bandit. Rewarded for the bandit’s capture, but disgraced in his own eyes for dishonouring his family, Charlie gives the cash reward to the young couple and surreptitiously leaves Golden Gulch.

Credits

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Alfred Paget as Cowboy

Anthony O'Sullivan as Charley Lee

Charles West as Bud Miller

Dell Henderson as Gentleman Jim Dandy

Edward Dillon as The Mail Carrier

Francis J. Grandon as Charley's Friend

Gertrude Robinson as Miss Dean

Kate Bruce as Extra